A robot fails the Turing Cat Test

18 thoughts on “A robot fails the Turing Cat Test”

1. I don’t get it.

   1. It’s a “Turing Test joke”- the first, and hopefully, the last.
      The Turing test is: …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

      1. Okay, i did get the joke. I’m just not a cat person. Thing is, i’d answer the same if asked about my dog.

         1. Of course. And you wouldn’t fail the test 😉

            1. +1 🙂

   2. You’ve evidently never lived in a household with a cat!

2. I guess it’s one of the questions in the Voight-Kampff test.

   1. Ha ha, except the replicants would fail faster because they’d never have an animal to look after. =

   2. In the VK test, it’s turtles all the way down …

      /@

      1. Tortoises.

         1. … & we’re back to a discussion we had on this another thread in the past week or two.

            /@

            1. * this

3. Clever. Note: Turing’s birthday is coming up, too.

4. Nothing special about my cat.

   Except maybe he has his own website and a store.

5. That was excellent! Thanks for the chuckle.

6. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

   It’s a wonderful sentence, encapsulating a general truth, but happy families are of course all different, though they may all be happy the same way.

7. Coincidentally, for all cat fans, here is a robot that fails the Tetrapod Cat test, but not by very much:

   “During tests, it demonstrated its ability to run nearly seven times its body length in one second. Although not as agile as a real cat,“.

   “… based on the meticulous observation and faithful reproduction of the feline leg. … “This morphology gives the robot the mechanical properties from which cats benefit, that’s to say a marked running ability and elasticity in the right spots, to ensure stability,” explains Alexander Sprowitz, a Biorob scientist.”

   Dubbed “cheeta-cub”.

   1. I guess cats have been “designed” for maximum running speed, but couldn’t intelligent design (lower-case) improve on that? Wheels or tracks, I guess.

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