[eu-gene] Generative or not?

[Lauri Gröhn]

At 13:58 16.2.2006, Davide Morelli wrote:
>this is interesting, how would you define the difference between an 
>interactive and a reactive relation?
>
>I guess Turing test would help us here ( 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test )
>
>...especially interesting is the ELIZA effect ( 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect )

I guess interactive/reactive is a differerent question than only "can 
computers perform humanlike conversation".

Basically Turing test is about can one differentiate computer from 
humans. But in the question interactive/reactive
even humans can fail. I know quite a many people who are not interactive.