I got my daughters a #Turing Tumble game recently, I’d heard a few things about how good it is and I can confirm, fascinating and really making them think! Sat watching them trying to solve a puzzle that needs 2 more parts adding before it’s solved is putting a smile on my face! This puzzle is currently failing as we need to get a sequence of 2 blue 2 red, 2 blue etc. but due to the starting position of the 2 bit pieces it failed!

How to spot a #boomer.

In a #dystopian future, boomers will be hunted.

Once caught, they'll be given a cognitive test derived from #Turing 's legacy.

And all of them will fall.

This amazing #Cambridge Alan #Turing Lecture by Sandi Toksvig is a timely reminder that #DEI is in our #DNA #Gender #Bias #lgbtq #Qi #Queer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGu8x7MzFg

Bauhaus Architects of AI: Gödel, Czech VÚMS, Twittering Machines, and Rossum's Universal Robots

https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/twittering-machines-bauhaus-czech.html

#Bauhaus #Architects #AI #Gödel, #Czech #VÚMS, #Twittering #Machines #UniversalRobots #Robota #CERN #Czechoslovakia #TwitteringMachine #Cybernetics #Recursion #Burroughs #Cyberpunk #Turing #Enigma #Ch #Sk #Unix #Linguistics #Emergence #Avast

Synthetic Poetry

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/synthetic-poetry/

I've been experimenting with Amazon's Polly service. It's their fancy text-to-sort-of-human-style-speech system. Think "Alexa" but with a variety of voices, genders, and accents.

Here's "Brian" - their English, male, received pronunciation voice - reading John Betjeman's poem "Slough":

The pronunciation of all the words is incredibly lifelike. If you heard it on the radio, it might sound like a half-familiar BBC presenter. It has a calm, even tone which suits the poem splendidly.

The rhythm is also spot on. That's mostly a function of the short lines and helpful punctuation the poem contains. Much like iambic pentameter, or a limerick, the syllables lend themselves to a specific and identifiable cadence.

But the emphasis is all wrong. The poem just... ends. There's no sense of finality in the tone. You'd expect a competent reader to recognise "tinned minds" as being worthy of stressing. Polly does have some capability to mark specific words for emphasis, but it's all very manual.

There's no synthetic emotion. Do you feel the rage, desperation, sadness, hopelessness of the poem? While Polly has some SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) support - the range of emotions it can express are severely limited. And, again, must be applied manually.

"I used to be an adventurer like you, but then i took an arrow in the knee!"

One of the reasons stock phrases pop up so often in video games is that it is expensive to write and record thousands of different lines of dialogue.

We're almost at a stage where a computer can procedurally generate lines for background characters to speak, and then "record" an audio version in an array of styles. No more expensive voice actors, no more memetic references for in-group homophily. Each player of a game will have a completely different dialogue experience.

But the bit that we're still missing is the automation of emphasis and emotion and comic timing and understatement and... all the things which trained actors spend years learning how to do successfully.

In 2011, the film critic Roger Ebert had surgery which eliminated his voice. He proposed the following "Ebert Test" for synthetic voices:

If the computer can successfully tell a joke, and do the timing and delivery, as well as Henny Youngman, then that’s the voice I want.

We're so close, I can taste it. The Turing Test for realistic voices is whether they can move the audience to tears with poetry.

Okay, here it is. This is the unofficial official timeline of #AI. I'm going to tell you what to expect, and it's definitely not: this all goes away and we return to before.

Are you ready for this? Are you sure? Well, read on.

Before I continue, I'm going to lay out some AI #benchmarks that we'll use to define "how good / scary is this AI?" This is in rough order of difficulty.

#Lovelace #Test for #Emergence: "Can a system produce surprising and useful outputes that weren't explicitely programmed via weak emergence?"

#Loebner Test: "Can a computer fool casual human judges in text conversations?" ( #Modern #LLM AIs are close to this )

#Turing Test (Original Imitation Game): "A man or a computer and a woman are both answering text interrogations trying to convince them that they are the woman. Can the computer perform as well as the man?" (This was the actual orginial #TuringTest.)

Strengthened #Imitation Game: "A man or a #computer and a woman are both answering text interrogations. Can the computer perform as well as the woman?"

#Coffee Test: "Can a #system enter a strangers house with no prior infor and using #perception, imitation, and #reasoning figure out how to make a cup of coffee?"

#College #Student Test: "Can a robot enroll in college, attend classes like an actual student, learn from the instructions things it didn't know before, and graduate?"

#VoightKampff Test: "Can a machine withstand adversarial exper interrogation and still pass as #human?"

#Harnad's Total Turing Test: "Is the system indistinguishible from humans in every aspect?" (This is a #DuckTest.)

Non #Duck Test: "Even with full access to internals, can experts find no evidence that it isn't a genuine human mind?"

The Imitation Game - ein Film über Alan #Turing und die Entschlüsselung von #Enigma. Hat mich völlig fasziniert. Großartiger Film!
Unglaublich was noch vor wenigen Jahrzehnten mit Homosexuellen gemacht wurde. #neveragain
https://www.ardplus.de/details/a0S01000002bjhi-the-imitation-game-ein-streng-geheimes-leben

If former #Amazon executive Doug #Gurr is being pushed out of the Alan #Turing Institute for incompetent leadership, what is he still doing chairing the UK Competition & Markets Authority, where he has a GIGANTIC conflict of interest? #CMA #DMCCA https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/04/minister-demands-overhaul-of-uks-leading-ai-institute-alan-turing

Minister tells #Turing #AI institute to focus on defence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7nppe5gkgo

Alan Turing showed that not everything logically definable is also computable.

Using a diagonalization method like Cantor’s, we can build a set D:
the set of Turing machine codes that don’t belong to their own halting set.

Here’s the twist:
No Turing machine can generate D without causing a contradiction.

#Turing #computability

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UK Minister tells #Turing #AI institute to focus on defence - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7nppe5gkgo "further government investment in the institute would depend on the "delivery of the vision" he had outlined in the letter."

Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet

https://research.roundtable.ai/proof-of-human/

'"Today we are marking the celebration of Alan #Turing's 113th birthday by implementing the #Enigma machine in #eBPF. The Enigma machine was not developed by Turing himself, but it was the machine he famously broke during World War II."'

https://isovalent.com/blog/post/breaking-boundaries-implementing-the-enigma-machine-in-ebpf/

The JH Kinda Sorta Daily TL;DR Edition
June 23, 2025
The U.S. Bombs #Iran—without Congressional approval, without a declaration of war, and without a clear endgame.
- #ICE raids escalate, but resistance is growing—from faith sanctuaries to courthouse sit-ins.
- Kalamazoo’s “tiny house” project collapses, with $1M worth of pods now up for auction.
- Fluffy Tail: Henry Hudson, Alan #Turing, and more!

#activism

https://johnhenryus.substack.com
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#UnDiaComoHoy 23 de junio de 1912 nace Alan Turing, matemático, científico de la #computación, criptógrafo, entre otras especialidades.

Simulations in the terminal with Rust & @ratatui_rs

**trmt** — 2D Turing Machine simulator for your terminal!

Supports extensive customization, real-time interaction & more!

GitHub: https://github.com/cenonym/trmt