{"id":707,"date":"2002-09-20T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2002-09-21T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/21\/the-turing-test-is-in-no-danger\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:52:31","slug":"the-turing-test-is-in-no-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/20\/the-turing-test-is-in-no-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turing Test is in no danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15818,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/20174&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313231838\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/20174&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/20174&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:17:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:17:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just some fun wordplay, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/20174\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">this MeFi thread<\/a> dealing with AI, language, and other such goodies.<br \/>\nSome English sentences likely to trip up any AI program attempting to understand them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We gave the monkeys the bananas because they were hungry.<br \/>\nWe gave the monkeys the bananas because they were ripe.<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you determine what object &#8216;they&#8217; refers to in each sentence?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to recognize speech.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to wreck a nice beach.<\/p>\n<p><em>Say these two aloud.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Visiting relatives can be boring.<\/p>\n<p><em>One sentence, two ways to understand it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We saw her duck.<\/p>\n<p><em>Three meanings (the least obvious involves a serrated blade).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Time flies like an arrow.<br \/>\nFruit flies like a banana.<\/p>\n<p><em>With thanks to Groucho Marx, I believe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some fun wordplay, from this MeFi thread dealing with AI, language, and other such goodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}