The concept of the Turing test has been cropping up a lot on the news lately, due to the current film about Turing and a competition hosted at Bletchley Park. For some reason it sparked off a whole bunch of thoughts.
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
Computers do it faster…
September 3rd, 2014 · Comments Off on Computers do it faster… · Technology
…but people do it better! I was quite amused to see the BBC news at lunchtime. At work we have it on screens in the lobby, with the sub-titles on. The sub-titles are, I am pretty sure generated by some computer speech recognition software, and it was having some trouble with David Cameron at PMQs. […]
How not to do a Turing test
June 16th, 2014 · Comments Off on How not to do a Turing test · Technology
There was a lot in the news last week about a program that supposedly passed the Turing test. I’m not so sure about that, for several reasons. First of all, I don’t think that Turing ever proposed a test as such, but rather made a statement about it being forseeable that one day a machine […]
Tags: Computing
I would like to tweet about this ‘ere dead parrot
May 21st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology
An interesting article on the BBC News site today about using Twitter to complain about things. Amongst other things it says: According to a poll of 2,000 people by the communications agency Fishburn Hedges and Echo Research in April 2012, 36% of people had used a social media platform to contact a big company and […]
Tags: Virgin Media
Today’s bright idea #9
May 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Today’s bright idea #9 · Life, Technology
I was watching Mrs. Skuds playing one of those Facebook games the other day. It may be called ‘Tribez’. It looked like a generic Swords & Sorcery meets Sim City sort of game. It made me think that the way technology is going we can’t be too far away from being able to play Sim […]
Tags: Bright Ideas·Games·Town Planning
Planespotting
April 14th, 2014 · Comments Off on Planespotting · Life, Technology
We had our grandson, Alfie, visiting over the weekend so I thought I would take him along to the Gatwick Aviation Museum to look at the planes there. In all the time I have lived here I have never got round to visiting before so I figured it was about time. I also decided to […]
Embedding Spotify
March 24th, 2014 · Comments Off on Embedding Spotify · Music, Technology
A friend has suggested that, if I mention a track or album on Spotify I should embed it in the post. Previously I have sometimes put a hyperlink in though often I haven’t bothered. I thought I would try installing a plugin and see what it does. This is just a test of that plugin […]
Delicate sound of thunder
February 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Delicate sound of thunder · Music, Technology
This evening I watched the first half of Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound of Thunder concert film that was broadcast on BBC Four over the weekend, which gave me a chance to indulge in at least a triple dose of nostalgia. The concert footage was from their 1987-89 tour, filmed during August during the US leg […]
Tags: Nostalgia
Near Field Communication: an idiot’s guide
February 10th, 2014 · Comments Off on Near Field Communication: an idiot’s guide · Technology
By which I mean a guide written by an idiot of course.
Tags: Gadgets·Networking·Reviews
My emails
February 9th, 2014 · Comments Off on My emails · Life, Technology
Huge apologies to anybody who has tried to contact me by e-mail on the old Skuds@blueyonder address in the last four or five (or maybe more) months. I didn’t read your e-mails. Here’s the thing. I decided to use my gmail more because it was dead easy to set up on my tablet and phone. […]
Tags: Doh!
