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Note that the Turing Award != Turing Test, which was my initial (excited) thought.



That a Harvard professor was able to convince an observer he was, in fact, human?


He was my undergrad advisor, and I have to say, he never convinced me.


http://www.amazon.com/Most-Human-Talking-Computers-Teaches/d...

The author of this book was a guest on The Daily Show recently and mentioned that there is an award given to the human who is most convincing to the judges that he or she is a human. (I'm not sure which Turing Test event he was talking about specifically.)

I didn't know or even stop to consider this before, but it is interesting to think about what makes our written speech seem human.

This is admittedly getting off-topic.


Or, you know, the author of such a system (being an AI expert and all)




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