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Fluency Without Understanding
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A system can produce fluent, appropriate-sounding language without any grasp of what its words mean.
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ELIZA, a 1960s program, held typed conversations by keyword-matching and transformation rules — and its inventor reported users attributing insight and reasoning to it.
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The attributions were the speakers' contribution, not the machine's achievement.