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The Cloud Test
This is a repost of an original from March 17, 2005, on a site of mine that no longer exists.
Alan Turing's 1950 paper in Mind, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proposed a test in which a human being and a computer would be interrogated under conditions where the interrogator would not know which was which, the communication being entirely by textual messages. Turing argued that if the interrogator could not distinguish them by questioning, then it would be unreasonable not to call the computer intelligent.
In The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Ray Kurzweil predicts that by the year 2029 "Machines claim to be conscious. These claims are largely accepted."
I propose The Cloud Test. Can Kurzweil's machine find shapes in clouds?
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A Necessity?
While I have tried to post on this blog items of interest and observations of value (at least to me), I have also tried to eschew politics. However, I suspect one could conclude that as the global and, especially, the local political situation deteriorates I have become a bit more cynical and trenchant with regards to politics (see In the wake of...).
From John Mauldin's latest letter (September 3) comes:
What we need to do is to make it easier for businesses to start and find capital. Reduce the regulatory burden that small businesses face. When small local banks need 1.2 employees to deal with regulations and compliance for every 1 worker they have making loans (as reported in the WSJ this week), something is seriously wrong.
Politics has exclusively become about power and increasingly less about providing and managing a framework that provides for the well-being of the citizenry. I am tarring both sides of the aisle with the same brush here.
On the way to work the other day I noticed the folowing bumper sticker:
REELECT NOBODY
James Drogan
"Under current law, federal tax and spending policies will impose substantial restraint on the economy in 2013, so CBO projects that economic growth will slow that year before picking up again, averaging 3.6 percent per year from 2013 through 2016.”
CBO per John Mauldin August 27
A Word to the Wise...
...from the wise and one of my favorite blogers, Bob Sutton. Sutton reflects on the decision of Jobs to step down as CEO at Apple. In this there is food for thought for all organizations of all sizes in all industries.
It's worth a read, especially in thinking about what Sutton has to say in the context of your own organization
