A Proposed Turing Test for Friday

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Classic humour

4:29 pm on Nov 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

A colleague received this email yesterday

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't.

Show me a machine that can appreciate the subtlety of that.

4:38 pm on Nov 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

Show me a machine that can appreciate the subtlety of demanding to be shown a machine that can understand the subtlety of a joke about binary.

I knew lunchtime drinking was a bad idea...

3:03 pm on Nov 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Requires too much a priori knowledge.

Someday...someday...

10:27 pm on Nov 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

I can understand it, and I'm a machine.

11:39 pm on Nov 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

10 of my father's fingers were badly hurt when he was a boy. How many unharmed fingers did he then have left?

5:15 am on Nov 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

1000 fingers remaining, of course.

6:06 am on Nov 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

10 of my father's fingers were badly hurt when he was a boy. How many unharmed fingers did he then have left?

-2?