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Blog Entry: Artificial Dumbness

2005 September 16, 11:16 PM

I've never formally submitted a paper for publication. The closest I came was in April 1998 when I almost submitted this abstract -- Blondes and Boors: How Artificial Dumbness Will Pass the Turing Test.

The 1979 Peter Sellers' movie Being There (http://imdb.com/title/tt0078841/), which I hadn't seen when I wrote the "abstract" above, makes the same point much more eloquently. Roger Ebert's 1997 review of the film (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970525/REVIEWS08/401010303/1023) is also excellent reading (Ebert's earlier 1980 review isn't as good).