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Human vs Computer Intelligence

Posted by michael on from the humanconf dept.

DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running an article regarding tests devised to differentiate from human and computer intelligence. One example are captchas, which can consists of a picture of words, angled and superimposed. A human will be able to read past the superposition, while a computer will not, and thus fails the test. It also goes a bit into some of Turing's predictions of what computers would be like by the year 2000."

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  1. much like with RadioShack by Quasar1999 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hate this... why do we have to register with the NYTimes to read these articles? I don't give my info to RadioShack when I buy my batteries, and I damn well ain't gonna give my info to NYTimes for some article.

    Why not post a google link? Why support the NYTimes campaign to identify all us anonymous cowards?

    ahhh nuts, I forgot to check 'Post Anonymously'... gooodbye precious Karma!

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  2. Year 2000 predictions by Pedrito · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It also goes a bit into some of Turing's predictions of what computers would be like by the year 2000

    I initially misread this line thinking the article was making predictions about what computers would be like in the year 2000. Damn, I knew I was going to get some karma for the jokes I had ready to go.

  3. Why? by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually I'm 25 (26 if you round up).