On Mar 13, 5:44*am, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:51:13 -0700, "anorton"

wrote:
The real author, George Plimpton, once put out a criticism/challenge to the
AI community saying - regarding a chess-playing computer - that, "The
machine isn't going to walk out of the hotel there and start doing
extraordinary things. It can't manage a baseball team, can't tell you what
to do with a bad marriage"

The George Plimpton who has been posting copious off-topic stuff here *(what
real person has time for that) *has been infuriating folks of all political
stripes by ignoring the real gist of arguments, resorting to insults when
all else fails, and responding with occasional non-sequitors. *All of these
are characteristics of the bots created to try to pass the Turing test and
win the Loebner prize. *The last clue to me though was his mistaking the
thread about home scale steel production as a political thread.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by
stupidity.
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Cheers,

John B.



who said anything about malice?