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Re: OT: How far we have come

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> May 02, 2004
• 431 views

On 2 May 2004, at 13:24, irv mullins wrote:

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> posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
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> Kat wrote:
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> > On 2 May 2004, at 10:36, irv mullins wrote:
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> > > First of all, where would the computer obtain the info that a chicken=
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> > > two legs, and a pig four?=20
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> > > Further, I wonder what would have happened if you changed "chickens" =
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> > > "ducks" or "geese". Would it have then been unable to solve the probl=
em?
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> > I wonder if the lights are coming on yet as to why a large database and=
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> > Kat
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> When I ask Google (which has a very large database, many programmners and=
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> perhaps as many as 80,000 computers) "how many legs does a duck have?",=
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> I get only one answer, and it's in chinese! ;)
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> That's no help. perhaps if I "ask Jeeves"....
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> How many legs does a Duck have?
> How many legs does a Duck have? Answer. Wrong. Correct...
> From:www.mtllive.com/MS2/labs/Demo1.html
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> EPICURIOUS: RECIPE: RED-WINE-BRAISED DUCK LEGS WITH ROASTED PEARS
> Watch how to make beurre ... duck legs, reserving fat for the saut=E9ed k=
ale. In a
> large bowl marinate duck ... from Chicago on 11/16/00 I have m...
> From:www.epicurious.com/db/recipes/recipesH/8/10898.html
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> scrit's Journal
> And then Question: How many legs does a duck have? Answer: 3, if he's a 3=
-legged
> duck. In a recent poll, 100% of Ivy league students got this...
> From:www.woohu.com/~scrit/friends/
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> We're not there yet, I guess.

Since i have deleted most of Tiggr's Ai code, because no one is interested,=
 i did this=20
manually:

duck=20
duck =0F
ducks duckling=0F
1. 01 noun,sing,plur set+animal any of a large number of relatively small w=
aterfowl=20
with a flat bill, short neck and legs, and webbed feet =0F

waterfowl=20
wa-ter-fowl =0F
waterfowls,waterfowl=0F
@ 1. 01 noun,sing a water bird; esp., any of a family (Anatidae, order=20
Anseriformes), of birds consisting of ducks, geese, and swans =0F

bird=20
bird =0F
birds=0F
1. 01 noun,sing set+animal,animal any of a class (Aves) of warmblooded, two=
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legged, egg-laying vertebrates with feathers and wings =0F

So i guess the answer is 2. And that is from a file i wrote out before 1994=
. What have=20
i done since? deleted more working code.

Kat