I remember seeing an exam answer once that went 'Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow.'

Close, but wrong. That's actually the definition of leisure pursuits in Pershore.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

ROFL!

Well I thought your version was more interesting, Ptolemy...

The thing about the Turing test, I believe, that it is *relatively* easy to get a computer to pass it within a specific discussion type, eg counselling, but has never been comprehensively done if you're allowed to talk about anything to it. AI just isn't up to it - the human brain and language capacity is still way beyond anything we can simulate.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Am I imagining it, or didn't we have an expert in AI on here somewhere a few months back? Was it Sara (who seems to have disappeared) or am I making that up?



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

It was Teri Pettit. I'm sorry she's not around any more!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Why? Do you need inseminating?

I think Teri has a big project due...She works for Adobe software on the Illustrator team, I believe and I think they're in the process of doing a new version rollout.