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Title: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on June 30, 2011, 05:00:00 PM
Ed Miliband is the leader of the oppostion, or is he? Perhaps he is a cheap robot. Watch this video and judge for yourselves :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770


I fear for the country.


Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:02:23 PM
Sorry, got distracted by http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13968148 .
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Camerus on June 30, 2011, 05:08:38 PM
 :lol:

Perhaps he belongs to the same political school as this former US political candidate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HER2pGdAak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HER2pGdAak)
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:09:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

What's a tortoise?
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Pedrito on June 30, 2011, 05:18:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:09:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

What's a tortoise?
You know what a turtle is?

L.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:18:55 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on June 30, 2011, 05:18:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:09:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

What's a tortoise?
You know what a turtle is?

L.

Etc etc etc :)
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 30, 2011, 05:33:50 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Someone explain to me how that test was supposed to work.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: alfred russel on June 30, 2011, 05:34:56 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on June 30, 2011, 05:00:00 PM
Ed Miliband is the leader of the oppostion, or is he? Perhaps he is a cheap robot. Watch this video and judge for yourselves :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770


I fear for the country.

:lol: Is that par for the course for Miliband? If that is the best labour can do they should bring back blair or brown.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: grumbler on June 30, 2011, 05:36:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 05:09:18 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

What's a tortoise?
The things that glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate, I think.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Sheilbh on June 30, 2011, 05:37:41 PM
He's another example of needing politicians who seem human :bleeding:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Martinus on June 30, 2011, 05:39:26 PM
Turing failed the Snowwhite test.  :(
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Martinus on June 30, 2011, 05:40:28 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 30, 2011, 05:33:50 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Someone explain to me how that test was supposed to work.

That's not it, nor can humans fail the Turing test. Everyone is just joking around with cultural reference.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: grumbler on June 30, 2011, 05:51:31 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 30, 2011, 05:33:50 PM
Someone explain to me how that test was supposed to work.
Replicants didn't have the same emotional responses as humans (I think it was because they lacked glandular responses or something like that, if I remember the commentary on the DVD correctly), especially when comparing humans and animals in peril.  Something along those lines.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: garbon on June 30, 2011, 08:10:57 PM
I miss my pet tortoise: Mr. Eight. :weep:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: jimmy olsen on June 30, 2011, 11:05:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 30, 2011, 08:10:57 PM
I miss my pet tortoise: Mr. Eight. :weep:
:console:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Syt on June 30, 2011, 11:41:33 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on June 30, 2011, 05:00:00 PM
Ed Miliband is the leader of the oppostion, or is he? Perhaps he is a cheap robot. Watch this video and judge for yourselves :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770


I fear for the country.

If it weren't BBC News I'd think this would be an Onion spoof. :lol:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Slargos on July 01, 2011, 01:10:38 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 30, 2011, 11:41:33 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on June 30, 2011, 05:00:00 PM
Ed Miliband is the leader of the oppostion, or is he? Perhaps he is a cheap robot. Watch this video and judge for yourselves :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770)


I fear for the country.

If it weren't BBC News I'd think this would be an Onion spoof. :lol:

That was my first assumption.

"This cannot be real. Someone must be fucking with him at the Beeb."

But after carefully checking that he does indeed vary his response slightly every time, it becomes obvious that it's not an editing job.  :cry:

Then again, he does look a bit... *cough*... brown.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Martinus on July 01, 2011, 02:06:38 AM
I thought his family is half Polish.  :blush:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on July 01, 2011, 02:34:19 AM
Polish Jews. His mother was saved from the holocaust by some catholic Poles during the war. His father was born in Belgium where his folks had moved to from Warsaw, they fled to Britain in 1940.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: The Brain on July 01, 2011, 03:44:54 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 30, 2011, 05:33:50 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2011, 05:08:36 PM
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Someone explain to me how that test was supposed to work.

We call it Strauss-Kahn for short.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Brazen on July 01, 2011, 03:45:12 AM
I think we should stop the rhetoric, get round the negotiating table and stop this kind of Milliband from happening again.

That was painful. I fear for the labour party. Again. Still.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Sheilbh on July 02, 2011, 12:27:13 PM
Quote from: Brazen on July 01, 2011, 03:45:12 AM
I think we should stop the rhetoric, get round the negotiating table and stop this kind of Milliband from happening again.

That was painful. I fear for the labour party. Again. Still.
Don't blame me.  I supported Andy Burnham :w00t:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Kleves on July 02, 2011, 02:50:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 30, 2011, 05:33:50 PM
Someone explain to me how that test was supposed to work.
IIRC from the book, most animals had gone extinct (ergo: electric sheep), so a human would have some sort of emotional response when told about a real animal struggling to survive.
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: garbon on July 02, 2011, 03:23:53 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 30, 2011, 11:05:52 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 30, 2011, 08:10:57 PM
I miss my pet tortoise: Mr. Eight. :weep:
:console:

Although it was decided that my youngest sister was too young at his death to know the truth, so we told her that he was hibernating. He's been hibernating for a long time now. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Josquius on July 02, 2011, 07:08:56 PM
:lol:
He is caught in an infinite loop.
After the 3rd time I thought 'surely now...' but nope, here comes a 4th. And again, even when asked if its effecting him!
LOL, jesus. I wish I'd watched Have I got news for you this week
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: AnchorClanker on July 02, 2011, 11:20:24 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 02, 2011, 12:27:13 PM
Quote from: Brazen on July 01, 2011, 03:45:12 AM
I think we should stop the rhetoric, get round the negotiating table and stop this kind of Milliband from happening again.

That was painful. I fear for the labour party. Again. Still.
Don't blame me.  I supported Andy Burnham :w00t:

"Ey up, I'm from the Norf"
Title: Re: Ed Miliband fails the Turing test
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on July 03, 2011, 01:30:57 AM
There was an amusing comment under one of the articles I read about this minor fiasco, viz. :

"He is either on drugs or he should be."  :D