Human failed Turing Test
This part of the post is based on Turing Test, Etc (1992), by Peter Seibel.The Loebner Prize is a prize for programs that could pass a kind of Turing Test. It started in 1991:
The first Loebner Prize competition was held on November 8, 1991, at the Boston Computer Museum. In its first few years, the contest required each program and human confederate to choose a topic, as a means of limiting the conversation. One of the confederates in 1991 was the Shakespeare expert Cynthia Clay, who was, famously, deemed a computer by three different judges after a conversation about the playwright. The consensus seemed to be: “No one knows that much about Shakespeare.”Cynthia Joyce Clay is still online, with a blog and stuff. Search "Cynthia Clay Turing" for yourself. She apparently likes to boast the distinction of being considered not human:
I was judged to be a computer program on Shakespeare at the First Loebner Prize Competition of The Turing Test—a truly science fictional experience. I'm an author who likes to write sf, fantasy, updated versions of old myths.
