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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".
ZeroHedge picked up on this as well, in his post: The Great Insanity In Context (200 Years Of European Bonds) , citing France and Italy as well as Spain.
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See the article here: Personal Income Tax Revenues Show Significant Softening in Q4 2013, Decline in Q1 2014
Continued here: Investor Bets in Risky vs. Safe Assets Hits Record High
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Rate of job creation eases Summary:Â Japanese manufacturing firms saw a decline in output for the second month running in May alongside a con tinued fall in new orders and new export orders. That said, rates of decline for both new orders and output eased from those seen in April. Employment numbers grew in May for the tenth month running, albeit at a slower pace
The Daily Ticker’s Lauren Lyster conducted an interesting interview today with British Member of Parliament Kwasi Kwarteng on gold and balancing the budget . To play the video, click on the preceding link.