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Make Your PC (Seem) Intelligent

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Can your computer pass the Turing test?

By Charles Platt

Can machines be intelligent? Computer pioneer Alan Turing suggested a test: put a person in front of a keyboard, communicating with a computer hidden at another location. If the computer can convince the person that he’s interacting with a human being, then for all practical purposes the computer is intelligent. This came to be known as the Turing test.

The trouble is, a computer can simulate intelligence without actually being intelligent. As a very ...

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