Friday, October 05, 2007

Should you be looking for a job? A reverse Turing test

The Turing test of artificial intelligence essentially says that a computer can be described as "intelligent" if it can fool a human into mistaking it for another human. Nassim Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness, has an interesting reverse test: "A human can be said to be unintelligent if we can replicate his speech by a computer, which we know is unintelligent, and fool a human into believing it was written by a human"

I randomly constructed the sentence below in JavaScript from about 100 business-sounding words. If it sounds like someone you report to, you might want to start looking for work...



Hit F5 for a new sentence.

(Thanks to the BS generator for many of the words.)

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This would be funny if it wasn't so, well, you know, insightful.