Not to deny Eugene its achievement, of course – as an exercise in fooling humans, Goostman is fascinating – but it has no real understanding of what it’s saying. It’s a superb piece of engineering, but it isn’t a machine that can think.
Sorry Internet, a Machine Didn’t Actually ‘Pass’ the Turing Test
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Mindgeek is reported to be one of the top three consumers of bandwidth in the world.
The company apparently made enough money from its “tube sites”, where users upload pirated content, to buy studios that produce content.
…the company could be making money at one end, the other, or intriguingly – both ends at once.
His proposed preface to ‘Animal Farm’.
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”
Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are neither good nor evil. Nor do we know how they will evolve. This article draws attention to the payment network aspect of these so called currencies, which gets overlooked in the high drama of their valuation and the ideological flag waving of both advocates and detractors.
An experiment in funding FLOSS projects in which donations are passed on to committers.
Click on the elements to drill down into their goodness.