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Turing in his grave
Researcher 150804 Started conversation Aug 27, 2000
anyone who gets bogged down with definitions forgets that he/she cant even prove to him/herself that everything their senses sense might only be a colourful pigment of their own imagination and that they might really be their own daydream
a.i. exists because "natural" i. exists whatever "natural"is matter through its crystaline order evolves towards sentience without any help from us so when we do help it things fairly wizzzzzzz along
is ay body out there?????????????????????????
Turing in his grave
Researcher 156127 Posted Oct 11, 2000
Talking about Turing in his grave, does any one find his death (and how he did it) a little sad?
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Is mise Duncan Posted Oct 27, 2000
It is sad yes...
But then, I only came to this thread because of the excellent pun, so every cloud has a silver lining.
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Recumbentman Posted Aug 5, 2004
A colourful pigment of their own imagination is lovely too.
As for the computer giving itself away by failing the halting test, most humans would respond with "I don't know" and couldn't the pooter be programmed to do the same for dodgy-looking questions?
AI is well illustrated by the thermostat. If you hold a flame under a thermostat controlling room temperature, you will fool it into thinking the room is way too hot.
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Recumbentman Posted Aug 6, 2004
But I get telepathic messages all the time from mine!
Or is that just me?
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Is mise Duncan Posted Aug 6, 2004
Computers send telepathic messages all the time - but humans are unable to recieve them. However if you ever walk into an office block late at night and loads of PCs are switched on you can tell they have just stopped talking as you came in. This happens to security guards a lot....
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Astro-Nomer Posted Jul 21, 2005
There is much suspicion about whether Turing did indeed commit suicide. I don't remember all the details, but i have heard very compelling evidence for governmental murder.
It boiled down to the fact that Turing's (illegal) homosexuality branded him warped and therefore untrustworthy of the significant top secret information to which he was privy.
I seem to remember that there were also many suspicious elements to the 'crime scene' which contradicted a verdict of suicide.
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Recumbentman Posted Jul 27, 2005
Government murder is way too dramatic. They simply made his life hell and left the rest to him.
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