Dihedral

[Stefan Behnel]

Fábio Santos, 16.07.2013 00:54:
>> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> Devyn,
>>>
>>> 88888 Dihedral is our resident bot, not a human being. Nobody knows who
>>> controls it, and why they are running it, but we are pretty certain that
>>> it is a bot responding mechanically to keywords in people's posts.
>>>
>>> It's a very clever bot, but still a bot. About one post in four is
>>> meaningless jargon, the other three are relevant enough to fool people
>>> into thinking that maybe it is a human being. It had me fooled for a long
>>> time.
> 
> Does this mean he passes the Turing test?

I'd say that "it" appears more correct. Or is there any indication of a
specific bot gender? (I sure might have missed it...)

Note that being of a specific gender is definitely not required to pass the
Turing test. I'm not even sure pretending to have one is required.

Stefan