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Everything you Want to Know About the Turing Test

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-got-a-D-on-my-turing-test dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Everything you want to know about the Turing test provided by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is their latest entry."

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  1. uuuuuh by Photon01 · · Score: 4, Funny
    But it is not conceivable that such a machine should produce different arrangements of words so as to give an appropriately meaningful answer to whatever is said in its presence, as the dullest of men can do
    Whaaaa?
  2. just what we need by ciroknight · · Score: 4, Funny

    more information on how to build an automated computer... hopefully microsoft will steer clear of this, a bugged out, Windows CE powered android is not quite my idea of a friendly robot..

    Brings new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"

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    1. Re:just what we need by Exatron · · Score: 2, Funny

      At least we know MS Killbot wouldn't be a threat.

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  3. This just in... by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):

    "Republican guards have secured the Turing test provided by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy!"

    More at 11.

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    1. Re:This just in... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 3, Funny

      Tell me more about Saeed.

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    2. Re:This just in... by alchemist68 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hush now, quiet. Or they'll start shouting at us:

      "Death to the Infadels"

      You know, I'm really going to miss Baghdad Bob's enthusiam and nightly broadcasts of how Iraqi forces were kicking our coalition asses. I was totally amused with this guy. It was kinda like waiting to see what laughter David Letterman's Top Ten List was going to bring.

  4. Re:Why? by wwest4 · · Score: 5, Funny


    You: I think this is the wrong road to go down.
    Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?


    You: We should make computers better for people, but they should be made to actually think and reason.
    Eliza: Why do you mention computers?


    You: We have enough trouble doing this ourselves...
    Eliza: Please go on.


    You: if we have machines doing it they will surely out think us, and then what?

    Eliza: What answer would please you the most?

  5. Passed the test by Cheeba+Racer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahh I passed the Test... Now to rid myself of those pesky humans!!

  6. First Turing Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If a program replies with "First Post" then logs off, does it win?

  7. Poon Turing Test by Obiwan+Kenobi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I vote for a Poon Turing Test. As if porn didn't drive enough technology, put a few hundred lonely hackers in a room, pay them well (with hot pockets and mountain dew) and watch the cybersex A.I. develop!

    Turing estimated that in 50 years (year 2000), 70% of people shouldn't have been able to tell they're talking to a computer (which of course didn't happen).

    Shit...give those geeks a month...

    </joke>

  8. The horror by lateralus · · Score: 5, Funny

    My paranoid mind is imagining that I'm the only human on /. and that all the other posts are automatically generated by Slashcode. Fortunately for me some of the trolls are too imaginative to have been produced by a machine.

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  9. There are other ways to convince a judge... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    From this bot:

    User: DO YOU GIVE ORAL SEX?
    Iniaes: No, I don't.
    User: WHY DON'T YOU?
    Iniaes: That feature was turned off due to abuse.

    I think if the feature was turned back on, the bot might convince a judge or two. :)

  10. The /. test by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Funny

    For any article posted does the user:

    1 - rushs to be FP
    2 - blames Microsoft (Microsoft related story or not)
    3 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in PS.
    4 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in OSS.
    5 - post contains "In Soviet Russia"
    6 - post contains "Imagine a beo..."
    7 - post contains Microsoft/Sony/MPAA/RIAA/DRM/DMCA is evil.

    If any of these are true, then the poster is definitely human. A computer would never be smart enough to show so much creativity and independant thought ;)

  11. Dr Fun by nagora · · Score: 3, Funny
    This seems appropriate.

    TWW

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  12. Cramming for your Turing test... by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200304/df2003 0410.jpg

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  13. CCCP Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia... Turing Tests You!

  14. Re:Why? by UselessTrivia · · Score: 5, Funny

    they will surely out think us, and then what

    For one, they will become so wired in to the network that they will immediately proceed to hunt you down as an obvious objector to their plans for global domination. Oh, and none of that 'there is no spoon' crap - that was patched last Friday.

  15. ELIZA by dpille · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I know all I need to about this topic now. I asked ELIZA:

    Eliza: Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
    Me: Do you believe the Turing Test is sufficient to evaluate artificial intelligence?
    Eliza: Oh, i believe the turing test is sufficient to evaluate artificial intelligence.

    Figures she'd think that.

  16. Re:people by calumr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember a story about a testee who was confused with a computer as the judge thought surely no-one knew that much about Star Trek.

  17. Re:Why? by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you saying we must analyze your brain architecture to prove you're intelligent? Sure, no problem -- wait here while I get a knife.

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  18. Re:Anti-Turing by Joehonkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, so the anti-turing test is basically l33t.

    "3y3 R h4XX0rZ U HAHAHAHAAHA LOL!"

    All you would need to run the test would be a 12 your old who just drank 5 bottles of Mountain Dew.