Game Over: Why Turing Test Probably Beat Big Mac · 9:49pm Mar 9th, 2016
So, in the last chapter of "The Iron Horse," Turing Test played a game of Reversi against Big Mac. She lost the first, but won the second, and was going to play a third. Did she win?
Well, I never did say. But what I will say is this: Turing Test never makes the same mistake twice. Well, at least not when it comes to something she can understand mathematically.
I did do a little research on games and AIs to figure out what would be a reasonably difficult game for Turing to learn, but would nonetheless be something she could easily dominate at. Good old xkcd provided a handy graphic for the occasion:
Notice that Reversi (you might know it better as "Othello," and it is one of my favorite games), is one that AIs can beat top players in. (Also note that my Alma Mater developed an AI that can dominate humans in beer pong. I am not even kidding when I say that I am proud of this fact.) Interestingly, there are a select few games that are considered difficult for AIs, including the very complex game Go, a Japanese game which relies heavy on intuition.
Why do I bring this up currently? Because now (like, as I am posting, right now), an AI has beaten arguably the world's best human in the first of five matches in a game of Go. An AI has beaten very skilled humans before, but this particular human is well known to be one of the very best at the game. There may be four games left as of this writing, but I would not be surprised if the AI won.
In other words, if Big Mac beat Turing Test, then he is much more skilled than we give him credit for. 
Wow, those last two don't even try. Nobody ever wins at Calvinball, and I'm fairly sure the day we make a perfect kissing robot, everyone everywhere will be virgins forever (techno-vigrins they will not, though)
3799964 It's XKCD, there's going to be a joke somewhere.
You say that, but my uni's engineering CAE program still thinks that an aluminium crank shaft less than a millimetre thick would withstand a torque force adequately.
Besides, the day when computers try to take over the world is the day they discover that I keep some pretty nasty electromagnets, batteries, wires, and a bottle of water under my bed.
3800126 Admittedly, there are other things that Turing Test is pretty stupid at. Jokes in particular (see the Pinkie Pie arc if/when you get to it). Actually, she used to not be so good at dealing with magnets either, but in recent chapters... well, you'll see.
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Judging from at least a few of my reader's comments about Turing Test, there are most certainly people like that already. And apparently they're okay with non-squishy humanoid robots. Even robot ponies.
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Some days, man. Some days.
3800463 Robo-whores?...
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There is a world of difference between Turing and any CAE program. Turing can, and will, automatically learn how to deal with edge cases (even complex ones with multiple edges — at absolute worst she simply will learn one edge at a time).
How does one "win" seven minutes in heaven? Any objectives are purely subjective, so whether you won or lost is also completely subjective.
I don't believe that (at this point) Turing can become sexually aroused (matter of course), so any meaningful activities would mostly be limited to conversation (at least on her part). At best, her partner would consider the session a loss, though who would have lost more would be up for debate...
Interesting idea for later?
Heh. Mere weeks later and go needs to be moved into another category.