Eugene Goostman, a chatbot imbued with the personality of a 13 year old boy, won the biggest Turing test ever staged, on 23 June, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. Held at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, UK, where Turing cracked the Nazi Enigma code during World War 2, the test involvedContinue reading “Bot with boyish personality wins biggest Turing test”
Daily Archives: June 26, 2012
Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon
Britons have been spitting blood this past weekend after a botched banking software upgrade at the UK government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland denied hundreds of thousands of people access to banking services. Customers of RBS and its NatWest and Ulster Bank subsidiaries have not been able to check their account balances or make major paymentsContinue reading “Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon”
Quote for the day: 26-06-2012
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it. ~ William Johnson Cory Blowfish12@2012 blowfish12.tk Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Related articles London 2012 Olympics Playlist Leaks (stereogum.com) London 2012 Olympics: the full musical playlist for the Olympic opening ceremony (telegraph.co.uk) Fact for the day: 23-06-2012 (blowfish12.wordpress.com) Quote for the day: 13-05-2012 (blowfish12.wordpress.com) NeverContinue reading “Quote for the day: 26-06-2012”
Fact for the day: 26-06-2012
The average YouTube user visits the site 14 times per month The average user spends an average of 25 minutes on the site each time they visit. The average user spends 5 hours and 50 minutes per month (not as much as Facebook) Together, we spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month. That’sContinue reading “Fact for the day: 26-06-2012”
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