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More interestingly, however, only 25 percent of the visitors correctly identified the entry as computer-written --a figure barely above that predicted by random chance. The computer's work was, to many, indistinguishable from that of the human authors. The standard method of judging whether a computer is conscious or not is whether it "acts conscious"--whether an observer would be unable to tell that its output came from a computer and not another human. Brutus.1 has by no means become a thinking writer, but if its product looks human to readers, it has somehow made up for whatever capacity...
Last Monday's crime was an anomaly in Cambridge, which reported a 41 percent drop in rapes over the first three quarters of 1999. That drop continues a near constant 10-year downward trend in so-called "stranger rapes." Acquaintance rapes, where the victim knows the attacker, are more common...
...study, one of many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
...pays for 80 percent of dialysis costs, which are about $48,000 a year. It generally funds more than that proportion of transplant costs, which average...
...Bears only suffered three penalties, all of which came in the third. So it was surprising that the Crimson went scoreless on the power play, since Brown kills just 55 percent of its penalties...