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Re: Confirm that you are not a robot...

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Jim Pennino wrote:
> 
> In sci.physics Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:
> > Am 17.11.2021 um 19:55 schrieb Jim Pennino:
> >> In sci.physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>> Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 17-Nov-21 9:09 am, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>> 9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1
> >>>>
> >>>> Putting
> >>>>
> >>>> calculate 9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1
> >>>>
> >>>> into Google gives the answer as 1. There is an ambiguity as to whether
> >>>> 1/3 should be construed as 1 divided by 3, or as the quantity one third.
> >>>> Google calculate takes the latter view.
> >>>>
> >>>> However, what this shows clearly is that as a test for being a robot,
> >>>> it's useless.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sylvia.
> >>>
> >>> wow, you googled the answer..dats 3rd grade cheating..shame on you miss
> >>> elseee.
> >>
> >> Nope, she ran it through google as a test for viablility as a robot wall
> >> and it failed the test.
> >>
> >> Did you not understand the sentence:
> >>
> >> "However, what this shows clearly is that as a test for being a robot,
> >> it's useless."
> >>
> >
> >
> > The term  9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1
> > contains two different division operators.
> >
> > A robot could eventually treat them as equally valid, while a human
> > would see the visual difference and would think, the difference might be
> > intentional.
> >
> > So a human would think about  9 - 3 ÷ (1/3) + 1, while a robot 'thinks'
> >  9 - (3 ÷ 1)/3 + 1, because robots usually don't try to understand
> > something.
> >
> > Google is certainly not a good example, because their AI is too far
> > developed.
> >
> >
> > TH
> 
> The order of operations rule is hardly a sophisticated challenge
> requiring advanced AI.
> 
> A robot would have to be programmed first to recognize a string of
> numbers and mathematical symbols as an expression to be evaluated.
> 
> Then it would be programmed with the order of operatons.
> 
> All that is pretty trivial.
> 
> Thus any entity that got the wrong answer is human as only a human would
> forget the order of operations, which makes it fairly useless as a robot
> test.

I bet all you people have trouple with those Captcha codes...

probably banging on your computer screen...


Confirm that you are not a robot...



Confirm that you are not stupid...


should be what it reads.



-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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Confirm that you are not a robot... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-11-16 14:09 -0800
  Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-16 14:32 -0800
    Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-11-16 22:19 -0800
      Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-17 07:31 -0800
        Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-11-17 08:41 -0800
          Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-17 08:52 -0800
    Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-11-17 23:18 +0100
  Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-11-17 18:24 +1100
    Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-11-17 10:39 -0800
      Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-17 10:55 -0800
        Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2021-11-18 07:22 +0100
          Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-18 09:00 -0800
            Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-11-18 11:00 -0800
              Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2021-11-18 11:09 -0800
    Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2021-11-18 14:21 +0100
  Re: Confirm that you are not a robot... "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2021-11-17 12:44 -0800

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