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DanBC on June 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”

That's terminology straight from Turing's paper introducing the game.

Computers were people back then, as well as digital computers. And he talks about cloning a human not counting as a win for an intelligent machine.

NAFV_P on June 10, 2014 [–]

> That's terminology straight from Turing's paper introducing the game.

Hi DanBC.

My choice of words was coincidental. I was not aware that Turing used the same terminology, so I am pleasantly surprised. Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of coincidences on HN, bizarre.

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