Python Turing machine

Chris Tavares christophertavares at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 2 17:10:17 EDT 2002


"G. Willoughby" <never at mind.info> wrote in message
news:ade0mc$j4r$1 at newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > hint: post some URLs of those implementations to the list. that way we
> > don't need to look up what it is and people here have fun trying to
solve
> > things pythonic...
>
> I belive he means a chat bot that tries to fool humans into beliving its a
> real person.
>
> --G. Willoughby
>

No, that's the Turing TEST. The universal Turing Machine (both were created
by Alan Turing) is the theoretically minimal general purpose computer. It's
an interesting bit of CS theory, but not particularly useful in day-to-day
life.

-Chris






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