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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".

May 24, 2014 0

Are Mortgage Credit Conditions "Tight"?

By News Desk

Are Mortgage Credit Conditions "Tight"? A statement in regards to credit condition in a Bloomberg article this morning on New Home Sales caught my attention and merits further investigation. Here is the statement in question: " Builder optimism has eased as well, reflecting still-tight credit conditions and limited availability of lots