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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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