As I was browsing the assortment of spam that got through the filter tonight,
I read something that was clearly generated by a robot.
My mind immediately started up a little "Turing Test" thought routine and it
was clear that a piece of email or other "artifact" cannot be respond to any
real Turing Test...
The phrase "Turing Sniff" came to mind.
Definition: A loosely defined spin-off of the Turing Test which can be used to
decribe that an artifact or text which purports to be made by a human seems to have been generated by a machine. Something which fails the turing sniff, 'smells like a robot'.
Usage: The machine-generated spam failed a Turing Sniff.
Anyone like that?
Posted by Earth at January 30, 2004 09:23 AM