Turingtestet i vardagen

Turingtestet är enkelt och självklart i teorin, men också rakt på sak och effektivt - från Wikipedia: 

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. In Turing's original illustrative example, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.

Att Marcus Birro inte är mycket mer än en randomiserad floskelgenerator tog något geni fasta på med BirroGeneratorn, och motsvarande gäller även stora delar av sportskriveri, vilket XKCD redan tidigare satiriserat - från New York Times, via Mark Thoma:

“WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver’s seat en route to a win, as it leads 51-10 after the third quarter. Wisconsin added to its lead when Russell Wilson found Jacob Pedersen for an eight-yard touchdown to make the score 44-3 ... . ”

Those words began a news brief written within 60 seconds of the end of the third quarter of the Wisconsin-U.N.L.V. football game earlier this month. They may not seem like much — but they were written by a computer.

Sedan går det ju i sammanhanget inte att bortse från den fantastiska Cleverbot-diskussionen (förklarad här), via Boing Boing:

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