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A More Perfect Human

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The Turing Test

There was only one running computer program at the conference, and it was the logic theory machine developed by Alan Newell and Herbert Simon at the Rand Corporation./nThis machine enshrined a particular vision of the human mind, in which human minds and modern digital computers are fundamentally the same./nOne proposed measure of machine intelligence is something called the Turing test, named for its creator British mathematician Alan Turing./nIf you're determining whether something is a machine or a human being, the Turing test is based on a parlor game for swapping gender.

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