The original Turing test

collision detection: The "original" Turing Test: My latest piece in Wired : few know that this is not the only scenario Alan Turing proposed in his famous 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." In it, he suggested an "imitation game," which plays like 20 Questions for transsexuals: first a man and then a computer pose as female, and the interrogator tries to distinguish them from a real woman.

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Slightly acerbic and eccentric dog walker who masquerades as a web developer and occasional CTO.

Spent five years running the technology side of the circus known as www.ibm.com.

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