Week 12 writting assignment

I think that the Turing test is a good test of intelligence, it is interesting however that no programme has ever passed it. To determine weather or not a computer is intelligent one has to prove it has the ability to think intelligently like a human. This test defiantly proves that by comparing the computer to the human to see if one can tell the two apart. This might be the best and easiest way for us to judge if it is an "intelligent" machine. However we are really the only one's who can determine if something is intelligent, and to make it fair we have this test.

Some drawbacks are that the evaluators are human and can be byest. For example evaluators knowledge and background can effect there answers. A better way to determine weather a computer is intelligent would be to build a programme that is unbiased to determine it. Although a programme can have it's drawbacks to, and that would be a hard programme to write.

Web 2.0 lab

Some interesting mashups:

1.) http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/
For each picture the wrappr generates other angles of the same photo. It basically lets you get severial diffrent views of the one photo. This is really interesting because it takes a two dimensional figure and makes it almost 3D.
2.) http://mapito.eu/
This site has a spirl of a bunch of random photos from all over the world. I think that this is a really cool site for anyone who has been to europe and seen a lot of these sites. It is really interesting to see them all from diffrent angles. Plus when you click on the photo you get taken to a page that talks all about the destination the photo was taken in.
3.) http://slut-o-meter.com/
This is kinda of a weird one and I'm not sure if it works properly or if I am just not doing it right, but it's a cool concept. You type a name into it and it shows how offten that name has been googled.