It’s 6:13 a.m., 54° and heading for 59°. If you think yesterday was perfect, today is supposedly more of the same. Details are here.
Big day for civic news: Members of the Board of Supervisors are considering ballot measures that would change Care Not Cash as well as ban entry fees at public parks that are currently free.
And as of January 1, public schools in California will be required to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, according to a bill Jerry Brown signed into law yesterday. Textbooks will also change, although those won’t be in the cards until at least 2015, given the way California’s budget crisis has been going.
And in both your shallow link and gay history news: Remember Alan Turing? Played a critical role in breaking the Germans’ code-making machine in WWII? Turing was a smart guy. He was also really, really gay.
During his lifetime, he looked ahead to a world where artificial intelligence would become so complex that humans would have difficulty distinguishing between an artificial intelligence and a real-life human. The theory he developed around this idea was called the Turing test.
And so, in honor of the Turing test, we bring you: Clive Thompson showing you how it’s done when you get courted by a chatbot.