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You could, of course, do machine checks of some subset of "can generate syntactically correct English" -and that would cut out a whole lot more bad programs th
by lsc 9y ago
You could, of course, do machine checks of some subset of "can generate syntactically correct English" -and that would cut out a whole lot more bad programs than 'can you write MacBeth.'
but- even when you pass that test, you will have a nearly infinite number of marcov-chain generators and similar programs to sort through.
My point is that if you want to solve a program by generating random code, you need machine-executable fitness test.
We don't have a machine-executable test for consciousness. The Turing test relies on the intuition of humans, and we have a very finite supply of that.
- thaumasiotes 9y ago> even when you pass that test, you will have a nearly infinite number of marcov-chain generators and similar programs to sort through Not really relevant to your point, but Markov chain generators aren't able to generate syntactically correct English. (Or, they are able to generate it, but they aren't able to stop themselves from generating syntactically invalid English, and almost all of their output will in fact be invalid.)