Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/08

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Subject: [Leica] Turing test
From: LRZeitlin@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:31:29 EDT
 
Eric writes:

<<What's all this nonsense and turing tests that mean nothing? Any idiot 

can tell the difference between a photo of a window and the window.


And I know cats that DO react to the TV.>>

Eric,

That's just the point. If the photo were truly a faithful representation of 
reality, you should not be able to tell the difference. "Truth" has nothing to 
do with photographic fidelity.

Your cats are smarter than mine.

Larry Z

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