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Monday, March 31, 2008
Entertainment

Dilbert’s Boss Is Probably Zoltan in Disguise

1:30AM Jesus Diaz | Today’s Dilbert cartoon reminds me of Addy’s brilliant story about Zoltan, the man who married a robot made with a sex doll, hacked teledildonics, and A.L.I.C.E., the artificial intelligence software that makes her brains. Some people made fun of Zoltan, but this cartoon shows a simple fact: many humans, bosses, employees, spouses, and lovers around us have the same probabilities of passing the Turing test as Zoltan’s wife. Including myself on a friday night. [Dilbert] More »
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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Anti-Spam Turing Test Is Really Global Human-Powered OCR System

11:25PM Wilson Rothman | You know the test you have to take on Digg or Facebook, the one that proves you’re a human? You see a hard-to-read word or string of gibberish, and you type in the correct characters. Carnegie Mellon researchers decided to replace randomly generated words with actual words from ancient manuscripts, words that machines are having trouble deciphering. When you or millions of other users type in a word, you are beating a machine and helping to preserve an irreplaceable text. More »
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