“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”
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Understanding 73
“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”
New Yorker Cartoon
With the anonymity the Internet provides we can imagine all sorts
of strange scenarios if the Turing test could be passed. You would have
no way of knowing what you were talking to. The New Yorker ran a
cartoon back in 2000. “On the Internet no one knows you are a dog?” We
come across a similar problem the other way around when we encounter
bad customer support. A few years ago, while trying to get an answer
to a computer problem, I became convinced the thing responding to
my emails was a machine. The company did use machine responder
technology so it could well have been. I asked it to prove it was human
by putting the word marmalade into an English sentence and fixing my
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