"In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting."

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Source : "Computer Simulating 13-year-old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test". www.reading.ac.uk. June 09, 2014.

Kevin Warwick

#Believe Quotes #Home Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I trust no one who hasnâ€™t time for music.”
“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

Source : Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Gift: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster
“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”
“Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.”
“Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.”
“When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.”

Source : William Steig (1969). “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble”
“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
“I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.

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