Fábio Santos, 16.07.2013 00:54: >> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> Devyn, >>> >>> 88888 Dihedral is our resident bot, not a human being. Nobody knows who >>> controls it, and why they are running it, but we are pretty certain that >>> it is a bot responding mechanically to keywords in people's posts. >>> >>> It's a very clever bot, but still a bot. About one post in four is >>> meaningless jargon, the other three are relevant enough to fool people >>> into thinking that maybe it is a human being. It had me fooled for a long >>> time. > > Does this mean he passes the Turing test?
I'd say that "it" appears more correct. Or is there any indication of a specific bot gender? (I sure might have missed it...) Note that being of a specific gender is definitely not required to pass the Turing test. I'm not even sure pretending to have one is required. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list