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Re:Turing Oversold? by wombatmobile on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:32PM (#28545844)
> These types of essays are a genuine attempt to rewrite a history that did not exist.

I'm not sure what you are saying? Could you clarify?

What is "secretarial style busywork"?

Is this article also "ill-researched"?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-...

What would a better researched view of history say?

I'm not trying to troll you or make you write an essay here - just trying to glean the main points of what you believe so I can see your point of view.

Are you familiar with the view that the "Turing Test" was first conceived by Turing as a challenge to discern the gender of a human hidden behind a screen?

In my comment I was trying to point to Turing's interests in the nature of gender and humanity. I find that expansive and prescient in the sense that "computing" to us moderns is more about NLP than calculating maths, and yet, it's all the same thing under the hood.

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