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Jun 10, 2008
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Dan Hsiao,
Laurence Gonsalves,
Simon,
Ben Darnell,
eugenio,
Atul Arora,
David Vasileff,
John Mueller,
Hutch Carpenter,
Brian Sullivan,
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Jeremy Toeman
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Mitch Kapor claims no computer will pass the turing test by 2029. Ray Kurzweil disagrees. (and other interesting bets) Each bet includes reasons for and against. I have my money on Kurzweil.
- Sanjeev Singh
Google probably has more computing power than Lt Cmdr Data, and yet is nowhere near as smart. I think it'll take more than computing power.
- Amit Patel
Amit, you only need to fool a human judge, you don't actually have to create AI :). I suspect a relatively dumb (but fast) machine with access to all the world's data (web pages, blogs, tweets, etc.) might eventually fool most people.
- Sanjeev Singh
Why do you mention computers?
- Eliza
I've never heard of this site. Really cool though. Thanks Sanjeev.
- Hutch Carpenter
+1 for Eliza!! I feel very old all of a sudden.
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
Do you often feel very old all of a sudden?
- Eliza
That's too clever...
- Danielle Fong