Ferdinand T. Cat, upset by ever-more-crafty trackback spammers, curses the name of Alan Turing.
The goal of the Turing Test is to create a computer program that appears to converse like a human. This doesn’t make sense to me because you already have several billion people who can converse like a human, so why would you want a machine to do it?
Ouch. That one cut a little close to home.
On balance, I’d say it was an intellectually drafted article. It certainly grabbed my attention at once. Ferdinand has a good knowledge of the subject and makes reading interesting.
But will anyone point out the irony of a cat criticizing the simulation of human writing? I won’t if you won’t.
And then, there’s what I like to call “The cat’s opinion on Schroedenger’s experiment”…
“And if he really wanted to know what happens inside the d***ed box before it’s reopened, why doesn’t he just get in there himself!”
[a classic thought experiment about the uncertainties of quantum physics]
DRK
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