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Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor
mhackarbie writes "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 who can create a program to pass the Turing Test. The best part is the resulting fiasco that develops between the eccentric philanthropist who started the contest and extremely annoyed AI Researchers such as Marvin Minsky."
Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"?
I wish I had one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
Fuck Jared Gould.
JARED GOULD SUCKS!!!!!
I mean come on, are those really news, added by real people? Me think Slashdot has a mind of its own and adds random news just so it won't bore itself to deletion...
To quote: You obviously a have a feeble grasp of history that does not venture past the propoganda stuffed down your throat in high school and/or by the history channel. If you did actually know history then you would be aware of course that the united states secretly instigated the pearl harbor attack by interfering with oil transport routes in the south pacific. Neither high command nor the most powerful ships where at pearl harbor. They knew an attack was coming eventually, and they needed it to be a slaughter so the public could never oppose entry to the war. Like almost every war America joins or starts there has to be some kind of event to draw us in. Basically these events are always manufactured. Sinking lucitania, pearl harbor, gulf of tonkin, to name a few... And of course nuking japan was not needed at all. Through freedom of information act requests we now know the president had agreed to an armistace and was already negotiating a surrender with japans emperor when the bombs where dropped. The mass death from the bombs was not really done to send a message to japan so much as a message to the Soviet Union. We wanted to demonstrate our new found power to completely devestate cities with atomic power in an attempt to intimidate them. So basically pearl harbor and horishima would have been both avoidable but then again the record shows that america has never been a country that tries to avoid mass slaughter.
for cancer for the last thirty years. Frauds!
Surely there's at least a half a dozen bots on this very site ready to submit "Frist Psot!" at the first sign of a /. story. They regularly take in dozens of /. readers.
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