[Deanesmay-announce] New post at Dean's World

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Hello,
	There is a new post on Dean's World.  You can read it at:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1178751918.shtml

It begins:

	I guess it was brought to mind by Dave Price's post
	and I don't know if it's been mentioned around here
	before but Mitch Kapor, designer of Lotus 1-2-3,
	the spreadsheet program that really made waves on
	the IBM PC, and Ray Kurzweil, OCR and speech
	recognition pioneer, have a standing bet for
	$10,000 at Long Bets as to whether any computer or
	machine intelligence will have passed the
	“Turing Test” by 2029....