I just had a very nice note from Mark Humphrys, who writes
We talked back in 1997 about my X-rated Turing Test program: just today I have discovered your nice comments in The Darwin Wars:
“one of the funniest experiments ever performed in computer science
.. it is a small milestone in human history to have produced a
machine that can do this”
Thanks very much. I’m going to use that quote!
Well, this is gratifying. But other researchers have gone further down the trail he blazed. He drew my attention to jenny18