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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...
JAID BARRYMORE has shed her clothes for Playboy, written a book of sex tips and appeared nude in the film 54, but she's still best known for being DREW BARRYMORE's mother. This may explain why last week she put several of her daughter's belongings up for auction on the Internet. Perhaps not the best strategy for rectifying a relationship that by her admission is a "bit estranged," but one nevertheless that may fetch her some extra cash. Among the items Jaid is offering are baby clothes, including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks and ducks, a Christmas...
...look, an amalgam of facial tattoos, piercings and "native" hairdos, and jewelry that borrows from cultures from the South Pacific to the Amazon. Much of this serves the same countercultural function that long hair did in the '60s, observes Rufus Camphausen, an author based in the Netherlands who has written extensively on tribal customs. Says he: "These symbols are a way of saying, 'I don't belong to the supermarket society...
Anti-abortion Republicans in Congress stalled Washington's UN payments until the situation became too risky to prolong the debt any longer. But if Clinton agrees to the compromise, he will no doubt invoke a waiver that was written into the deal allowing $15 million to continue to go to agencies involved in family planning and reproductive health care services. Without this waiver, the agreement would inhibit the ability of family planning groups around the world to provide reproductive health care services to women...
Zittrain also accused Microsoft of creating a more feature-rich Java virtual machine--an application which runs programs written in Sun Microsystem's Java language--simply to render it incompatible with Java virtual machines running on other platforms, thus prompting the poisoned coffee reference...