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| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 92 Registered: 1-2012 |
http://www.trademarkia.com/micatone-72319931.html Musical Instrument Corporation of America | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 93 Registered: 1-2012 |
Turing test From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The "standard interpretation" of the Turing Test, in which player C, the interrogator, is tasked with trying to determine which player - A or B - is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions in order to make the determination. Image adapted from Saygin, 2000.[1] The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour. In Turing's original illustrative example, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers. The conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so that the result is not dependent on the machine's ability to render words into audio.[2] The test was introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Since "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing chooses to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words."[3] Turing's new question is: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?"[4] This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the remainder of the paper, he argued against all the major objections to the proposition that "machines can think".[5] In the years since 1950, the test has proven to be both highly influential and widely criticized, and it is an essential concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.[1][6] | ||
| hammer
Intermediate Member Username: hammer Post Number: 174 Registered: 9-2009 |
Given all the work she does, it would seem possible. However, given the warmth that emanates from her when you meet face to face I'd say it's unlikely unless they've recently made some incredible progress in the development of machinery. | ||
| hammer
Intermediate Member Username: hammer Post Number: 175 Registered: 9-2009 |
P.S. and by warmth I'm referring to that of the emotional kind as opposed that which can be reduced by the installation of a heat sink. | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 94 Registered: 1-2012 |
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s. On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead; he had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide,[81] it is speculated that this was the means by which a fatal dose was consumed. An inquest determined that he had committed suicide, and he was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June 1954. Turing's mother believed that the ingestion was accidental, caused by her son's careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Biographer Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing may have killed himself in an ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.[83] Hodges and David Leavitt have suggested that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 film Snow White, his favourite fairy tale, both noting that (in Leavitt's words) he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Queen immerses her apple in the poisonous brew" This may have been Steve Jobs inspiration for naming Apple Computer. A bite of the apple... first Eve then Snow White. | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 95 Registered: 1-2012 |
Ron made her. I rest my case. | ||
| hammer
Intermediate Member Username: hammer Post Number: 176 Registered: 9-2009 |
What? Susan gets no credit for her contribution? | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 97 Registered: 1-2012 |
OK, then: a beautiful machine. | ||
| byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1376 Registered: 12-2004 |
John, Turing's death was likely an accident: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092. Apple have denied that the logo was related to Turing. | ||
| elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 1418 Registered: 6-2002 |
Did you guys see this MICA amp? (apparently a rebranded 'Oliver') MICA amp-ebay |
