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...least that's the way the meaning of the Turing test is usually put. In truth, midway through his famous essay, Turing wrote, "The original question, 'Can machines think?,' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." His test wasn't supposed to answer this murky question but to replace it. Still, he did add, "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted...
...School should not be a rite of passage like receiving one's diploma and heading for private or corporate practice; it should be reserved for those who have performed superbly, not merely well. If 70 percent of students are receiving honors, then the distinction an honors degree confers becomes meaningless, especially to employers who are trying to distinguish among candidates for jobs...
...federal loan program has all kinds of bells and whistles," he said. "Now students will not have to sit through this meaningless 45-minute video. We're trying to replace it with something that will make more sense...
Does God exist? Is life really meaningless? Woody Allen ponders some of the deepest philosophical questions of all time in his "God (a play)." While he doesn't provide any answers, Allen does present a comic debate on the meaning of the universe...
...seems an immutably comic character, so caught up in her moral strictures she has not sense enough to see her husband's basic good will, and freights Lady Windemere with melancholy. Her lines make her seem flighty and naive, but Amendola spaces them, pausing between delivery so that rather meaningless observations lilt in her mouth with undo contemplation. From her opening scenes with Lord Darlington, one expects a tragic conclusion based simply on Amendola's tone of voice...