FRANKFURT, Sept. 11 — It's hardly surprising that a car that bills itself as the "ultimate driving machine" would inspire imitation.
To differentiate his family's machine from potential imitations, Bialetti commissioned a mascot from the Italian artist, Paul Campani, in 1953.
What Christian learns along the way is that if machines win the imitation game as often as they do, it's not because they're getting better at acting human; it's because we're getting worse.
In his landmark 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," the mathematician, philosopher and code breaker Alan Turing proposed a method for answering the question "Can machines think?": an "imitation game" in which an "interrogator," C, interviews two players, A and B, via teleprinter, then decides on the basis of the exchange which is human and which is a computer.
Whatever the case, this project acts as powerful foundational work in the creation of what could in a few years be a successful generalized art-imitation machine.
His loose wording (Turing 1950b, p. 434) has led some writers wrongly to suppose that Turing proposed an 'imitation game' in which a machine has to imitate a man imitating a woman.
An imitation Uzi machine gun was recovered from the back passenger seat of the car, the jury heard.
Sports Authority Inc., a chain of sports-equipment stores, was cited by the city yesterday for selling imitation semiautomatic machine guns that are strikingly similar to the real thing, the Department of Consumer Affairs said.
(Perhaps this response assumes that a successful machine participant in the imitation game will need to be equipped with sensors, etc. However, as we noted above, this assumption is not terribly controversial. A plausible conversationalist has to keep up to date with goings-on in the world).
Turing said that asking whether machines could pass the imitation game is more useful than the vague and philosophically unclear question of whether or not they "think".
