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A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test
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Participants in the dialog: Chris, a physics student; Pat, a biology student; Sandy, a philosophy student.
Participants in the dialog: Chris, a physics student; Pat, a biology student; Sandy, a philosophy student.
A computer will pass the Turing test by 2029.
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Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names – and their cash – on the future. Pronouncements about the future come easy....
Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names – and their cash – on the future. Pronouncements about the future come easy....
A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem
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Explaining the mind by building machines with minds runs into the other-minds problem: How can we tell whether any body other than our own has a mind when ...
Explaining the mind by building machines with minds runs into the other-minds problem: How can we tell whether any body other than our own has a mind when ...
Alan Turing Statue in Manchester, England
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The Alan Turing statue, created in slate by Stephen Kettle in 2007, is located at Bletchley Park in England&nb...
The Alan Turing statue, created in slate by Stephen Kettle in 2007, is located at Bletchley Park in England&nb...
Alan Turing's legacy
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WAY BACK in the prehistory of computing, Alan Turing posed a question that almost 50 years later is still the subject of intense debate. It's inspired ...
WAY BACK in the prehistory of computing, Alan Turing posed a question that almost 50 years later is still the subject of intense debate. It's inspired ...
Alan Turing: Is he really the father of computing?
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A series of celebratory events is taking place this week to mark the centenary of computer pioneer Alan Turing's birth. To mark the occasion the BBC has...
A series of celebratory events is taking place this week to mark the centenary of computer pioneer Alan Turing's birth. To mark the occasion the BBC has...
Alan Turing: the enigma
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Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and indeed was the ...
Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and indeed was the ...
ALICE Artificial Intelligence and Nicole
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This video illustrates a form of Turing test where the computer tries to fool the human into thinking that the computer itself is human. I have merged t...
This video illustrates a form of Turing test where the computer tries to fool the human into thinking that the computer itself is human. I have merged t...
Alice chats like a winner
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The Loebner Prize is awarded every year; it is based on the Turing Test, where the intelligence of a program is tested by getting it to communicate with a ...
The Loebner Prize is awarded every year; it is based on the Turing Test, where the intelligence of a program is tested by getting it to communicate with a ...
ALICE in AI land
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More and more websites are using chatbots to spice up visitors' interactive experiences, but most people don't make the connection between chatbot programm...
More and more websites are using chatbots to spice up visitors' interactive experiences, but most people don't make the connection between chatbot programm...
ALICE victorious in AI challenge
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Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at...
Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at...
Anna
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Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna
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Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Artificial stupidity, Part 2
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If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
Bot or not
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This website is a Turing test for poetry. You, the judge, have to guess whether the poem you’re reading is written by a human or by a computer
This website is a Turing test for poetry. You, the judge, have to guess whether the poem you’re reading is written by a human or by a computer
Can a computer think ?
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Alan Turing asked that question in 1950 and proposed a test to determine if a computer could think. Turing, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer scien...
Alan Turing asked that question in 1950 and proposed a test to determine if a computer could think. Turing, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer scien...
Can Machines Think?
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Turing did not leave behind many examples of conversations he thought his AI machine should have. One that appears in the 1950 paper Computing Machiner and...
Turing did not leave behind many examples of conversations he thought his AI machine should have. One that appears in the 1950 paper Computing Machiner and...
Can you prove you're not a machine?
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Sounds like something out of The Twilight Zone, doesn't it? I've been thinking about something called the Turing Test lately because some of my ...
Sounds like something out of The Twilight Zone, doesn't it? I've been thinking about something called the Turing Test lately because some of my ...
Chat program scoops the prize for being almost human
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Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program. On Sunday, th...
Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program. On Sunday, th...
Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
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More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
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More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
Computer-Human Conversation Closer to Reality
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How will we know when we've built the first intelligent machine—a computer capable of thought? It will pass the Turing Test. In 1950, British mat...
How will we know when we've built the first intelligent machine—a computer capable of thought? It will pass the Turing Test. In 1950, British mat...
Conversation, Deception and Intelligence
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A blog dedicated to science, technology, and my interests in music, art, film and especially to Alan Turing for his Imitation Game: a measure for machine i...
A blog dedicated to science, technology, and my interests in music, art, film and especially to Alan Turing for his Imitation Game: a measure for machine i...
CONVERSE
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Qbasic source - "I have written several programs in QBASIC but the most interesting is probably converse.bas. It is a 'Chatterbot' program, which attempts ...
Qbasic source - "I have written several programs in QBASIC but the most interesting is probably converse.bas. It is a 'Chatterbot' program, which attempts ...
Creating a chatterbot (Part 1)
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Ever since the first time I heard about the Turing Test I’ve wanted to make my own chatbot. It started probably twenty plus years ago, when the only lang...
Ever since the first time I heard about the Turing Test I’ve wanted to make my own chatbot. It started probably twenty plus years ago, when the only lang...
Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test
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A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat a...
A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat a...
ENTERTAINING AGENTS: A SOCIOLOGICAL CASE STUDY
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Traditional AI has not concerned itself extensively with sociology nor with what emotional reactions might be produced in its users. On the other hand, ent...
Traditional AI has not concerned itself extensively with sociology nor with what emotional reactions might be produced in its users. On the other hand, ent...
Eva
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Our chatbot - Eva - was created by Stanusch Technologies SA. Eva, just 4 weeks after launch, competed in Swansea (UK) for the Loebner Prize 2019 with ...
Our chatbot - Eva - was created by Stanusch Technologies SA. Eva, just 4 weeks after launch, competed in Swansea (UK) for the Loebner Prize 2019 with ...
From Eliza to A.L.I.C.E.
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The story of Joseph Weizenbaum is in many ways almost as interesting as that of Turing. An early pioneer in computer science, Weizenbaum was one of the for...
The story of Joseph Weizenbaum is in many ways almost as interesting as that of Turing. An early pioneer in computer science, Weizenbaum was one of the for...
Harumi
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[French] Harumi est un chatbot programmable fonctionnant avec la suite open office, prêt à être utilisé en français. Il es...
[French] Harumi est un chatbot programmable fonctionnant avec la suite open office, prêt à être utilisé en français. Il es...
Has text-porn finally made computers 'human'?
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At first glance spam, pornographic text messages and video games are not contributing much to human development. But a good case can be made for regardi...
At first glance spam, pornographic text messages and video games are not contributing much to human development. But a good case can be made for regardi...
How my program passed the Turing Test
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In 1989, the author put an Eliza-like chatbot on the Internet. The conversations this program had can be seen - depending on how one defines the rules (and...
In 1989, the author put an Eliza-like chatbot on the Internet. The conversations this program had can be seen - depending on how one defines the rules (and...
Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's
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Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's Artificial Stupidity. I am the subject of the article “Artificial ...
Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's Artificial Stupidity. I am the subject of the article “Artificial ...
Human fails Turing Test
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New Scientist has often reported on researchers' attempts to build machines that pass the Turing Test, a benchmark for a robot's ability to think. ...
New Scientist has often reported on researchers' attempts to build machines that pass the Turing Test, a benchmark for a robot's ability to think. ...
Human or machine? Jabberwacky chatbot put to the ultimate test.
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UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human' arti...
UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human' arti...
I Chat, Therefore I Am...
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“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via ...
“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via ...
Intelligent Machines: Chatting with the bots
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One of the ultimate aims of artificial intelligence is to create machines we can chat to. A computer program that can be trusted with mundane tasks - bo...
One of the ultimate aims of artificial intelligence is to create machines we can chat to. A computer program that can be trusted with mundane tasks - bo...
Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test
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We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
Loebner 2011 winner - Bruce Wilcox Interview
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Here I am happy to once again present our annual Loebner Prize Winner interview. Questions were gathered from the members of Ai Dreams. This year Bruce Wil...
Here I am happy to once again present our annual Loebner Prize Winner interview. Questions were gathered from the members of Ai Dreams. This year Bruce Wil...
Loebner Prize 2009 video
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Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cl...
Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cl...
Mark
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You may be chatting with Mark.... or a bot pretending to be Mark. It is up to you to decide and it could be either at any given time! This is my own ver...
You may be chatting with Mark.... or a bot pretending to be Mark. It is up to you to decide and it could be either at any given time! This is my own ver...
Medieval chat-bot
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Machines that deal with numbers and perform useful calculations have a long history, gradually increasing in power and flexibility over the course of sever...
Machines that deal with numbers and perform useful calculations have a long history, gradually increasing in power and flexibility over the course of sever...
Mitsuku wins 2019 Loebner Prize
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For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is the ...
For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is the ...
Notes on the Loebner Contest Grand Prize Rules
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This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe...
This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe...
Rethinking the Turing Test
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At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the firs...
At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the firs...
Simon's Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with 'Imitation Game' experiment
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On Saturday April 16, students at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Dr. Richard Wallace of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation for t...
On Saturday April 16, students at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Dr. Richard Wallace of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation for t...
Tests that show machines are closing in on human abilities
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It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers str...
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers str...
The Age of Intelligent Machines : A Kind Of Turing Test
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As discussed in several of the contributed articles in this book, the Turing test was devised by Alan Turing as a way of certifying machine intelligence. T...
As discussed in several of the contributed articles in this book, the Turing test was devised by Alan Turing as a way of certifying machine intelligence. T...
The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook
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The prospect of Artificial Intelligence was raised as an issue for the general public from the very start, stimulated by the success of wartime science tec...
The prospect of Artificial Intelligence was raised as an issue for the general public from the very start, stimulated by the success of wartime science tec...
The Art of Virtual Chat is Still a Work in Progress
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Fifty years ago, the British mathematician Alan M. Turing predicted that by about the turn of the century, the average person would not have more than a 70...
Fifty years ago, the British mathematician Alan M. Turing predicted that by about the turn of the century, the average person would not have more than a 70...
The female Turing Test
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Most high-tech folks assume they know what a “Turing Test” is: You ask an interrogator to chat online with a human and a computer, and to try a...
Most high-tech folks assume they know what a “Turing Test” is: You ask an interrogator to chat online with a human and a computer, and to try a...
The Imitation Game
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The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientis...
The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientis...
The Lying Game
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Can machines think? Can the truth set you free? You may be in for a surprise. Alan Turing, of course, turned the original question into a celebrated tes...
Can machines think? Can the truth set you free? You may be in for a surprise. Alan Turing, of course, turned the original question into a celebrated tes...
The Trouble with the Turing Test
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In the October 1950 issue of the British quarterly Mind, Alan Turing published a 28-page paper titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” I...
In the October 1950 issue of the British quarterly Mind, Alan Turing published a 28-page paper titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” I...
The Turing Test and Chinese Room Experiment
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Descartes' Challenge: For we can certainly conceive of a machine so constructed that it utters words, and even utters words which correspond to bodily acti...
Descartes' Challenge: For we can certainly conceive of a machine so constructed that it utters words, and even utters words which correspond to bodily acti...
The Turing test and intelligence
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Karl Lashley, after studying the unit of memory for thirty years, supposedly stated that he was not even sure whether the engram (unit of memory) even exis...
Karl Lashley, after studying the unit of memory for thirty years, supposedly stated that he was not even sure whether the engram (unit of memory) even exis...
the Turing test and intelligence
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Karl Lashley, after studying the unit of memory for thirty years, supposedly stated that he was not even sure whether the engram (unit of memory) even exis...
Karl Lashley, after studying the unit of memory for thirty years, supposedly stated that he was not even sure whether the engram (unit of memory) even exis...
The Ultimate Turing Test
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What is the ultimate Turing Test? In 1950 Alan Turing published his now famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." In that paper he desc...
What is the ultimate Turing Test? In 1950 Alan Turing published his now famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." In that paper he desc...
Think Fast, Clever Robot
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HALF A CENTURY ago, Alan Turing, the mathematician who pioneered computational theory, came up with a simple test to determine whether or not a computer co...
HALF A CENTURY ago, Alan Turing, the mathematician who pioneered computational theory, came up with a simple test to determine whether or not a computer co...
Turing 2014
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Eugene Goostman machine convinced 33.33% of a new set of Judges at The Royal Society 6-7 June 2014, following its 29.17% performance at Bletchley Park in 2...
Eugene Goostman machine convinced 33.33% of a new set of Judges at The Royal Society 6-7 June 2014, following its 29.17% performance at Bletchley Park in 2...
Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor
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Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize to anyone ...
Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize to anyone ...
Turing Test Dead End
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over the years, i have used irc and other chat systems as a resource and for entertainment. while goofing around the other day, i was surprised to see that...
over the years, i have used irc and other chat systems as a resource and for entertainment. while goofing around the other day, i was surprised to see that...
Turing's Machine
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Wondering whether a machine can think, the English mathematician Alan Turing described the following thought experiment. He imagined a locked room with a c...
Wondering whether a machine can think, the English mathematician Alan Turing described the following thought experiment. He imagined a locked room with a c...
Turing's World
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Turing's World is a self-contained introduction to Turing machines, one of the fundamental notions of logic and computer science. The text and accompanying...
Turing's World is a self-contained introduction to Turing machines, one of the fundamental notions of logic and computer science. The text and accompanying...
Why The Turing Test is AI's Biggest Blind Alley
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Alan Turing's 1950 paper, _Computing Machinery and Intelligence_ (Turing 1950) and the Turing test suggested in it are rightly seen as inspirational to the...
Alan Turing's 1950 paper, _Computing Machinery and Intelligence_ (Turing 1950) and the Turing test suggested in it are rightly seen as inspirational to the...
Wise guys and living dolls
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Just over half-a-century ago, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, fresh from his secretive triumphs at Bletchley Park and the breaking of the Enigma C...
Just over half-a-century ago, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, fresh from his secretive triumphs at Bletchley Park and the breaking of the Enigma C...
World's First Original Imitation Game
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Turing's Original Imitation Game was played for the first time ever at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA on Saturday, April 16, ...
Turing's Original Imitation Game was played for the first time ever at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA on Saturday, April 16, ...
Zipf's Law
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Before we get to ALICE, we need to visit another unusual figure in the history of computer science: Professor George Kingsley Zipf. Although he was a conte...
Before we get to ALICE, we need to visit another unusual figure in the history of computer science: Professor George Kingsley Zipf. Although he was a conte...
