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Computer Beats "Turing Test" Convincing Some Human Judges It’s Human
June 10, 2014 0

Computer Beats "Turing Test" Convincing Some Human Judges It’s Human

By News Desk

The Guardian reports Computer Simulating 13-Year-Old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the Turing test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based conversations. The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was indistinguishable from a human, then it was "thinking".

June 10, 2014 0

Bleg: foreigners, especially Indians or Chinese, arguing their countries should do nothing on climate because of American emissions

By News Desk

Tweet Bit of an experiment. I’m interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same position the Republican leadership is taking today, that we should do nothing because foreign bogeyman is worse, except that the bogeyman is the US. It’s Indians and Chinese that the Republicans usually identify as the bogeymen, so they’d be the ideal examples

June 9, 2014 0

Lennart Bengtsson and His Nine Lives

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Tweet While fairly distrustful and always on the lookout for inside knife work, Eli has come to recognize that sometime you have to wait to the end to understand what has happened. This was the case, with the Monnett issue .  There, even after it was explained to him, Michael Tobis was simply too full of good will to accept Eli’s explanation.