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  • From: Tony Kimball <alk AT pobox.com>
  • To: bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Think cash
  • Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 02:17:47 -0600 (CST)



It seems not so hard to me.

For example, abstractly, the computer can make a picture, and ask a
question about it which requires significant understanding,
and parse the reply trivially.

For example, concretely, the computer might compose many differently
colored pictures of fish so that exactly one small fish is within the
concavity of the mouth of exactly one, differently colored, larger
fish, and ask "which color of fish is about to be eaten by which
other color of fish?" The answer can be either a pair of colors
or a sentence which is scanned for case and voice, to normalize
color order, and color equivalence class word lists are checked to
verify the answer.

I think the general method is a 2-day hack, tops, with perhaps
30 minutes each to add trivial variations to the dictionary of
image relations.

Perhaps the real problem here is like the eye tests at the DMV: It
costs more think cash to devise the think cash test than it does to
build a dictionary of queries and replies! What I find truly
difficult is devising think cash tests which do not rely, as this
example would have to do in order to be effective, upon "security
through obscurity".










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