Re:Rorshack Text != Intelligent (Score 1)

Pre-cisely! I have written a simple BASIC chatterbot which assimilates sentences into a "linked list database" (it takes each word in a sentence and adds a 'next word' and 'previous word' link to the database). It generates output by choosing a random word from the last sentence to be assimilated, then assembling a sentence by randomly choosing allowed links as it traverses the list. It generates on-topic and intelligible answers >50% of the time, this is approximately 49% more often than the average human. I am working on reducing this percentage to make it sound more like a person. This program has the capability to learn and make eerily intelligent sentences, yet it is not intelligent. Kinda makes you wonder, huh? Can we be sure most humans are really thinking, and not just faking it?? Maybe that's why measurements of brain usage are only showing up 10%. A real person needs 100% of their brain, but the people measured were only emulating sentience, and thus only required 256Kb. For those of you who have seen Star Wars Episode I, I think Obi Wan put it best when he replied to Jar Jar Binks, "The ability to speak does not imply intelligence." BTW, I am pretty sure I can easily turn the program into a haiku generator, the main problem is the inconsistency between the written word and the actual number of spoken syllables.