November 2009
1 post
Copycat the Genius
Copycat is a program designed by Hofstadter that through analogy mimics actions made by the user. This can be a little hard to explain so I will give an example; the exact same example Hofstadter used in his book to design his program.
Suppose the letter-string abc were changed to abd; It would then be reasonable to hand Copycat the letter-string ijk and ask if to change it in the same way....