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So you were impressed by ELIZA right? Because that's what first "beat the turing test"

Which, actually is not a real thing. Nor has it ever really been meaningful.

Trolls on IRC "beat the turing test" with bots that barely even had any functionality.



I wasn't alive back then, but I was absolutely impressed by it the first time I heard about it. I don't know how that is supposed to be a gotcha.




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