CATALOG OF LIFE AND TURING TEST

Browsing the vast sea of organized ones and zeros this morning, I discovered two very cool websites. One--a wiki whose goal is to catalog every species of life on earth, called the Encyclopedia of Life. It's a beautiful page, but im not sure how far along it is in its ambitious goal. As i browsed over the classification box, the group Chromista jumped out at me--who's that?! Evidently, the case was made in the 80s for the naming of this supergroup, which can be thought of as part of Protista or a whole kingdom on its own. Hello--where have i been? Proves there's no possible way to keep up with all that science is constantly accomplishing. Two--the web-presence of a bet between Mitchel Kapor and Ray Kurzweil. The bet is 27 years long: Mitchel Kapor, the 'predictor' thinks that computers will not pass the Turing test by year 2029. Kurzweil thinks they will. Computers can already surpass human intelligence when it comes to playing chess or competing in a game of Jeopardy, but will they be able to approximate the human sense, the human imagination, and complex social relationships by 2029? Time will tell...