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I remember you saying you worked there when I asked people what it was like; I was about to start a 2 year contract there.
Its a beautiful place, the Grund, Scotts bar, Liquid, the bar with money on the celing, the great Italian restaurants, the prossies hanging around the station. And the country side, and Germany being so close for cheap food and the Rhineland.
Its a great city, a great part of the world to live in.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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I'd go back. In a shot. Summer nights in the Market Place, Chi Chi's and a pitcher or three of Marguerita. Oh yes.
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Oh yeah. Chi Chis in the market. Never used to go to that part of town much, it was always the Grund for us. We used to live in a village 15 mins out towards Belgium, it was a nice mix, the city was close, but we had a big garden and huge house. There were about 8 of us lodging there, it was a lot of fun.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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I lived out on Rue Gustav Kant - a mere 5 minutes bus ride from the centre, between Rue d'Arlon and Rue d'Auberpine.
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I drove through Paris[^] not too long ago, I think. Not much to see or do, so I left.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Has anyone else seen the item about the Turing test being beaten...slightly terrifying, will Windows 10 boot to a black screen with a red dot in the middle and the chilling phrase "What are you doing Dave". I'm going home to unplug anything from the internet...   
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glennPattonWork wrote: Has anyone else seen the item about the Turing test being beaten
Yeh, hadn't expected that headline for a few more years.
..then again, depending on which human one takes even Eliza might beat the test.
It's a good illusion, but it is still a long way to machines that can reason, and a very long way to being self-aware.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It's a good illusion, but it is still a long way to machines that can reason, and a very long way to being self-aware.
but to be fair that also applies to 1000s of interweb posters and officially they are classed as human
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It is a good thing that humans aren't required to pass Turings' test 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Heck, I struggle look at some of Q&A questions!
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It was only beaten if you're under the delusion than a 13 year old is actually sentient. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And by the time it gets to 17 it will know everything and have no use for us.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Mike Hankey wrote: and have no use for us.
That's what gets claimed.
Until the bill arives, a car is needed or the dog dies.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yeah it's funny how that works ain't it?
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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After reading the article about it I understand that we are living in a rich word with no problems to solve anymore...
That group proved nothing, but how can be resources vaste on useless 'science' studies...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I was particulalry worried when I read the article because at first I thought it said a computer had managed to "successfully stimulate a 13 year old boy" which is all kinds of wrong.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: successfully stimulate a 13 year old boy
Said the man who picks up little girls in the woods 
The console is a black place
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chriselst wrote: which is all kinds of wrong.
Not if your an inventor in Japan . . . Clickity^
And you know where this is going next . . .
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I must admit, the name Turing Test and 13 year old boy did make me kind of worried
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So Justin Bieber passed the Turing test?
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glennPattonWork wrote: Has anyone else seen the item about the Turing test being beaten
At an event on Saturday at the Royal Society in London, a conversation program running on a computer called Eugene Goostman was able to convince more than a third of the judges that it was human.
That just means that 1/3 of the judges were idiots. Seriously though, if determining whether a machine passes the Turning Test relies on, well, humans, then we have a significant problem. And interesting test would be the inverse: given a real human being, how many "judges" will deem the person to be a machine?
Technically, only a machine should be able to determine whether another machine passes the Turing Test.
Marc
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i agree
1/3 of the judges is just a "Placebo effect", 2/3 should be better to eliminate morons.
Turing was more subtle, he didn't write AI "equals" RI, but only AI "simulates" RI.
From Darwin to Oscar Wilde, prudence...
machine or human (A) | machine or human (B) | interrogator machine or human (C)
Delete the human everywhere (this is the beginning!) Find who is human. The game is initiated by C :
"Pr Clifton a strange game in which the only winning move is not to play" 
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