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I understood that, I just found sentences like "The player was able to verbally chat with our representative during play, while continuing to play." amusing. As
by Tichy 16y ago
I understood that, I just found sentences like "The player was able to verbally chat with our representative during play, while continuing to play." amusing. As if him being unable to chat might have indicated failure of the Turing test.
- LiveTheDream 16y agoThe conversation test may have been to establish the the player wasn't blindly following instructions from a robot. Holding a conversation with the investigators would at least make it difficult to follow surreptitious advice.
- dedward 16y agoCould be read that way. The point, though, was to prove the computers weren't playing automatically and that the human was the one actually making decisions - the computers were just helping with the manual non-strategic aspects of running that many games at once.
- c23gooey 16y agoI understood that sentence to add to the incredulity of being able to play 120 tables at once and still hold a conversation