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Eugene Goostman and the Singularity

In 2014, a computer program named Eugene Goostman fooled more than 30% of judges at a Turing contest run by the British Royal Society. That's how you make sure that computers don't turn evil is you give them really funny names,. Because you can't. If you have a Terminator right or a Skynet, OK, those might turn out to be evil. But can you imagine just like the singularity where it's like, yeah, Eugene Gostman now takes over the world and controls everything? Right. Yeah, Sarah Connor can't fight Eugene Goestman. She can at best give him a nuggy or a swirly. It seems like Alan

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