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David Edmonds on Undercover Robot

Philosophy Bites

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The Chewing Test by Alan Turing

The main theme of the book is fairly obviously, what i would call the chewring test. The robot is inserted into a school to pass as a little girl. It transpires that there are five robots around the world, all attempting to do the same thing. And whoever pulls it off will win this enormous prize from a slightly dodgy, silicon valley billionaire called george bishop.

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