25 May 2019 - Gnirut Test

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Can you pretend to be a computer, and pass the reverse Turing Test, the Gnirut Test? Quick, animate a zoom into the Mandelbrot set on the screen! Not a chance; even a savant human calculator cannot fake being an electronic calculator, a trick that is a million times easier. So the day that a computer passes the Turing Test, it won’t mean that machines are as smart as people. It will mean that machines are strictly smarter.

clue:

“A million times easier” is an understatement.

take oh take this clue away

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