The world is your canvas

Cool pavement art – (from ads – unknown source) Ehren had a cool idea about this. He suggested painting massive fixed-perspective images just like these on roadside hillsides in the snow, like a huge alien flying saucer that would only look right from the perspective of passing drivers [update] coffee cup manhole covers

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. […]