Erik Pukinskis

A man-machine conversation

Experimenter: Solve this puzzle, and ask the computer to keep track of how long it took you.

Participant: (to Computer) Time me.

Computer: The time is ten fourty-five A.M.

Participant: No, like, use a stopwatch or something to time how long it takes me to do this puzzle.

Computer: Is that what "Time me" means?

Participant: Yeah.

Computer: OK. I started a stopwatch.

Participant begins puzzle


 
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