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Recumbentman Posted Jun 23, 2014
How very strange that this should happen on the sixtieth anniversary of Turing's death, last Saturday.
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Bald Bloke Posted Jun 23, 2014
I don't think it really succeeded
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/09/software_passes_turing_test/
https://plus.google.com/+glynmoody/posts/Pjn3geB9vji
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Recumbentman Posted Jun 24, 2014
The Telegraph had an article saying it didn't really succeed, but it does seem to have met the requirement that one-third of the expert observers be deceived.
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Recumbentman Posted Jun 24, 2014
Turing's point, echoed by Pinker and Dennett, is that there is nothing sacred about thinking. I think it was Pinker who gave the example of the thermostat; by holding a match under it you can make it think the room is hot. People may say that's just 'something like thinking'; but there is no hard line to cross anywhere.
Loose language is sometimes appropriate.
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