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>From: derek@lynx.cs.wisc.edu (Derek Zahn)
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Subject: Re: ai in the media
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In <60528@aurs01.UUCP> throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:

>Now I'm even MORE aghast, since I've seen last night's episode
>of "The Machine that Changed the World", in which it was stated
>(with a straight face, no less) that Turing had established that
>anything a human could do, a computer could do.

Yes; they also said that he was "light-years ahead of his
time" so what do you expect?  Nice performance by Jacobi, tho.

derek
sure, it can do *that*, but can it SNEEZE?


