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...Greenleaf '01 is a physics concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...Greenleaf '01 is a physics concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...that we are being too harsh. Just as children progress through the various stages of pre-consciousness to full self-awareness in their toddlerhood, so too computers must slowly approach their sentience. Thus I propose an adjunct to the Turing Test, something that I will immodestly christen the "Greenleaf Test." If a computer can generate sentences that are indistinguishable from political campaign rhetoric, it has passed the Greenleaf test. In other words, if a computer can eventually be indistinguishable from presidential candidates, it has taken its first (baby) step toward full consciousness...
...Greenleaf '01 is a physics concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Thus, here in this column I present the first public Greenleaf Test. The following quotations have come from two different sources, one an unnamed presidential candidate (hint: I made the test as easy as I could without lowering the bar below the two party system), and the other a simple "babbler" computer program (CS-51 students might recognize this program as the Markov-based babbler of assignment 8). I allowed the program to use some general text from the congressional record so that it might "learn" the fine nuances of political rhetoric. And here, in no particular order...