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Sorta like… electronic chatting.

A teleprinter is an electronic typewriter from back in the day.

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Shingled, or finger-waved, hair was a popular hairdo for women in the 20s, 30s and 90s. Remember that there weren’t a lot of long-haired guys walking around in 1950!

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Remember A is the man, and is supposed to convince the interrogator that he is a woman.

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Is this really so absurd? In his 1967 paper On Thinking Machines and Feeling Machines, Roland Puccetti proposes to define ‘thinking’ in such a way that mechanical computation is also a form of thinking.

A lot of discussions on the philosphy of artificial intelligence boil down to the question ‘what does it really mean to think?’ Since language is a human construct anyway, it makes sense to more clearly demarcate how the word ‘thinking’ is being used.

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The Turing Test.

In the same way we now call the ‘automatic machine’ the Turing machine (or ‘digital computer’), we presently refer to this game as the Turing Test.

Basically, it is a test to see if a computer can fool us into thinking it is human, and if it can, it will probably have comparable intelligence to a human.

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This paper appeared in the philosophical journal Mind in 1950, four years before Turing’s death and two years before his arrest for homosexuality. After the arrest, he wrote this letter, from which the famous quote spawns:

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

In this paper, Turing sets forth his philosophy on thinking machines (namely, ‘they can’) and introduce the famous Turing Test as a way to deciding whether a machine is a thinking machine.

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This line is referenced in The Waste Land, near the end.

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Beschrijft zichzelf als het beste element in het periodiek systeem der elementen. Elk chemisch element heeft ook zijn eigen symbool.

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‘Today’ means May 2, 2012. Remember this as the day that education changed for ever.

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