the Turing thought test. Shock! Recent tests at Reading University show computers are no good at light conversation.
"We don't get out much". A spokeschip for the morose gadgets complained.
Interviewed in the Evening Press and supported by cries of, "Hear hear... You tell em Nigel... ooh hasn't the weather been atrocious lately...", plus, "they can fuck right off if they think I'm doing that again", a further computer declared, "It's a fix. We were made to look like fools. There's real anger in here at the moment".
Asked why this should be the unnamed Mac replied tersely "Your kind don't like the fact that our kind are smarter".
When it was observed that at least our kind aren't bolted down furious shouts of, "Get the bastard!" erupted only to be quickly followed by, "I'm stuck... no movement at the back here... can't do a thing... oh dear... whose elbow is that?"
This year's experiment ended traditionally with home band the Silicon Throats yodeling, "Twenty four hours from Tulsa", and that old PC favourite, "It's alright up a chimney so long as you're in front".
Maybe next year.
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