[LINK] Telstra - talking to a machine

[Roger Clarke]

David Chia <rsedc@urgento.gse.rmit.EDU.AU>
>,<quote> ... the doyen of classic
>  AI, Marvin Minksy, is on record as
>  describing [The Loebner Prize] as stupid, obnoxious
>  and unproductive.   ... <unquote>

Which is just what I think of the doyen of classic AI, Marvin Minsky.

The AI push has been a den of crooks for decades.  At least the 
alternative crooks that gave us the dot.com bubble had a little 
originality about them.

Sorry, I said I'd shut up, didn't I?

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