{"id":110,"date":"2005-03-18T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/alan-turing-scrapbook-turing-machines\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T02:43:00","slug":"alan-turing-scrapbook-turing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/alan-turing-scrapbook-turing-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Turing Scrapbook – Turing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really need a reason to blog about Alan Turing and Turing Machines<\/a>, you know, the idea that if you ask questions of something, and if you can’t tell whether it’s a human being or not, it’s the intellectual equivalent of a human being.<\/p>\n

But I’m blogging about it anyway because this guy’s site<\/a> came up very high in a Google&#153 search on “Cockles and muscles,” by which I hoped to find the old Irish dittie about Molly Malone that I’ve been singing for the neighbors’ enjoyment.<\/p>\n

Update: I think I was already too Irish when I wrote this&#151a Turing Machine is just a system that can execute all of the instructions necessary to be a Universal Computer&#151in other words, everything that’s not excluded by Goedel’s Theorem of Incompleteness. The Turing Test<\/i><\/b> is the one that says if you put slips of paper with English on them into a slot in the wall, and slips of paper with accurate translations into Chinese come back out of the slot, you have to assume that there’s a human translator in there who knows both English and Chinese, and if it’s simply a machine, that doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t really need a reason to blog about Alan Turing and Turing Machines, you know, the idea that if you ask questions of something, and if you can’t tell whether it’s a human being or not, it’s the intellectual equivalent of a human being. But I’m blogging about it anyway because this guy’s site … <\/p>\n

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