5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?

Maru Dubshinki · 01 Feb 2005, 12:53 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (Maru Dubshinki)
Date: Tue Feb  1 12:53:25 2005
Subject: (urth) 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?
In-Reply-To: <1f7617370502011143170eb5c8 at mail.gmail.com>
References: <20050201154712.13264.qmail at web25703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
	<1f7617370502011143170eb5c8 at mail.gmail.com>
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The two of you are probably thinking of a) Parry; an improved Eliza
which was a lot more effective and b) some experiments where
unsuspecting students talked to a program similar to Eliza via a
terminal and never suspected anything (that is, they were not told to
apply all their critical spirit to it, like they would in a real
Turing test.).

~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:43:20 -0800, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I seem to recall a program which regularly fooled
> > people into thinking it was a client-centred
> > psychotherapist.
> 
> That would be "Eliza." It didn't really fool very many
> people or for very long.
> 
> --Dan'l
> 
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