[Wolves] random thought

Jono Bacon jono at jonobacon.org
Mon May 31 11:08:42 BST 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 11:07, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> Chris Ball wrote:
> > i was thinking, there a few people on this list that are programmers, has
> > anyone ever thought about making some kind of reactive program, that could
> > be entered into a turing competition?
> 
> *wince*
> 
> I'd suggest, before thinking about a project like this, that you review
> the literature a bit. I don't want in any way to stifle creativity, but
> people have been trying different methods of getting computers to
> simulate intelligence since Alan Turing himself, so most of the ideas
> that could be come up with have already been tried in one way or
> another. Some that seem initially promising fizzle out when examined in
> detail, and others are the subject of furious AI research as we speak.

I am sure the emacs source code will have something. ;)

	Jono

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