Re: PHIL/AI: Humongous Lookup Table

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:33:09 -0800


CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:

> I wasn't discussing the hypothetical "ultimate lookup table", which would
> have all possible conversations recorded. My point was in reference to any
> possible lookup table, which necessarily can have only a very limited set
> (and in particular to a table made by recording very many actual
> conversations).
>
> With any real table it will be easy to construct a sentence that isn't in its
> lookup database, thereby blowing its response and the rest of the
> conversation.

yup
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