In 1950, mathemetician and cryptographer Alan Turing wrote a paper
entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", where he described a
test to determine if a computing machine could be classified as
artificially intelligent. A human judge engages in a natual language
conversation with both a human and a machine via a text-only interface
(such as Usenet). If the human judge, by posting questions and reading
responses, cannot differentiate between the human and the machine, then
the machine is deemed to be intelligent.
It appears that there are certain parties posting to this newsgroup that
do not pass the Turing Test, so they must actually be either:
1) an automated response from a machine, that spits out the same response
over and over again, no matter what the input is.
2) a human that is a moron.
Let's see if any responses occur that help us prove or disprove either of
these possibilities.
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