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Losing an old friend

My trusty, indomitable Thinkpad T40 is showing telltale signs of domitability. I will feel its loss like the loss of an arm I’m using to cling to a mountain. Unfortunately, my Thinkpad crashes about once a day – hangs rigidly from a carefully-tied noose, requiring a hard reboot. I could send it off again to […]

The Turing tournament – a proposal for a reformulation of the Turing Test

Introduction Describing the Turing Tournament Comparing the Turing Test and the Turing Tournament Devising new rules, and non-linguistic competitors But is it intelligent? MH: Are you a computer? Dell: Nope. MH: You’d be surprised how many fall for that one. Dell: Not me. —— MH: What’s fifty-six times thirty-three? Dell: One thousand eight hundred forty-eight. […]