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1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 June 2014 08:14AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 June 2014 08:58:42AM 9 points [-]

The 30% quote is legit:

" I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning."

http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html

Comment author: jsteinhardt 10 June 2014 04:18:48AM 5 points [-]

This was a prediction Turing made, not how the test was defined.

Comment author: DanArmak 09 June 2014 09:09:53AM *  0 points [-]

We can't do it in 10^9 bits, though. Of course that's just nitpicking.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 June 2014 10:00:23AM 0 points [-]

Maybe with the best compression we can? But yeah, that's not the main goal.