The Turing Test involves a computer program trying to convince a person
that it is human. One lonely heart has already fallen for it, Netropolitan has
discovered. The paper at
http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Julia/Julia.html
details one man’s attempts to seduce “Julia”, a verbose computer program—not
the hockey-playing librarian he imagined he was talking to.
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