The story reported it as an 18 month level so I would take their word for
it until proven otherwise. No need for the interaction to be typed. The
person interacting could use voice recognition programming, but that is a
trivial point. If we take a dialogue between, let us say, 10 human
adults with 10 real human 18 month-olds and 10 human adults with "Junior",
as we will call this R4P model, and type the 20 dialogues into an online
discussion, then we can do a Turing Test. The statisticians can evaluate
the results. That will give us the proof though I think we'll have to
spiff up the research design a little first.
Sample Dialogue:
POC: What Baby Junior wanna be when Junior grow up?
Junior: Wanna be president.
POC: Baby Junior sure?
Junior: Sure as steppin on a texas cowplop in June, hombre.
POC: Baby Junior have to go to school.
Junior: What be school?
The staff of Saturday Night Live will be the judges who will sort the
protocols into two piles, (1) rated as dialogue with R4P-Junior; (2) rated
as dialogue with a human 18 month old.
R4P-Junior would go to robot school where robopsychologists would program
it, developmental step by developmental step up to adult levels of verbal
skill.
POC
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Zero Powers wrote:
> >From: Party of Citizens <citizens@vcn.bc.ca>
>
> >Have they passed the Turing Test at the 18 month level as reported in the
> >story or not?
>
> No. It would be pretty hard to even conduct that sort of test seeing as how
> there aren't many 18 month old humans who can even do IRC, much less give
> any sort of coherent response to a typed question.
>
> -Zero
>
> "I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
> that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
> Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
>
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