Owen Storey, Author at New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Science news and science articles from New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Fri, 30 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 242057827 Letters: Crossword test /article/1829063-letters-crossword-test/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Fri, 30 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 http://mg13818717.000 In the long-standing debate as to what extent artificial intelligence
can emulate the human variety (‘I process therefore I am’, 27 March), a
key issue is how the two can be compared objectively. In the field of ‘common-sense
computing’, may I suggest that a reasonable basis for comparison – involving
understanding natural language and using everyday knowledge – is the ability
to solve crossword puzzles?

Owen Storey Paris

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