Borges and Herbert Simons are two great minds, but their conversation is not deep since is mostly shared view about the meaning of human and machine intelligence. Today, with LLMs we have a tool to explore the relation between intelligence and language, between number of parameters, neural nets architectures and much more. So that conversation give us no new insight but is delightful to share time with such great people.
>I believe that in about fifty years'time it will be possible
to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10⁹,
to make them play the imitation game so well that an average
interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent, chance of mating
the right identification after five minutes of questioning.
A prolog program, swipl (it takes less than a second to solve your puzzle)
N is number of turns of don't know answers.
the bad predicate means that the person can know its number at turn N.
bad(_,_,_,-1) :- !,false.
bad(_,A,A,0) :- !.
bad(A,_,A,0) :- !.
bad(A,A,_,0) :- !.
bad(B,C,A,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(B,D,A,N1),!.
bad(C,A,B,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(D,A,B,N1),!.
bad(A,B,C,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(A,B,D,N1),!.
solve(X,Y,Z) :- Y1 is X-1, between(1,Y1,Y),
between(0,2,N), Z is X-Y,bad(X,Y,Z,N).
?- solve(65,X,Y).
X = 26,
Y = 39 ;
X = 39,
Y = 26 .