Dilbert and Alan Turing
Oooh - the punch line of todays Dilbert was the Turing Test!!!!! Totally uber-geek!
Alan Turing was one of the great minds of the Twentieth Century. He is one of my heroes. Turing was a brilliant mathematician - right up there with Godel. He also was responsible for breaking the German Enigma code. If weren’t for Alan Turing, WWII could have turned out quite differently.
However, his death was tragic. Turing was gay. The British Government gave him a choice: jail or hormonal treatments. Turing chose the hormonal treatments. He morphed from a lean championship cross country runner into an overweight blob with breasts. After a year of hormone treatments, he died from eating a cyanide laced apple. His death was ruled a suicide.
Turing was directly responsible for saving millions of British lives and yet his government subjected him to hormonal treatments. Definitely not Britain’s finest hour.
Anyhoo, enough soap boxing. Via the Wikipedia here’s a concise defintion of the Turing Test:
It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test.
Now, armed with that bit of knowledge, you’ll discover just how funny today’s Dilbert really is:
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Love it!
Heh… Most excellent. Scott Adams is one of my my heros.