title: The Turing Test
author: Jon Ladner
description: Jon Ladner graduated in 2009 from the University of North Texas, where he earned degrees in Music and English Literature, and where he also was a founding member of the Brotherhood of Revelries. Since then, he has continued his education by caring for the disabled, marrying a beautiful woman, teaching math, and drinking French pressed coffee on a regular basis. He currently lives in Denton, Tx, with his wife, Rachel, who hopes to someday have a cat.
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  Turing Test
  
  
  
  
  
  Book One of the AI Diaries Trilogy
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2018 by E. M. Foner
  
  
  
  
  
  eBook ISBN 978-1-948691-26-0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “That’s it for today,” I told the secretary. “I’m running late and I can’t
  babysit this thing. By tomorrow afternoon—Thursday at the latest—the operating
  system should finish its update.”
  
  
  “Will my laptop finally recognize its power adapter?” Amy asked.
  
  
  “I can’t offer any guarantees. If your boss wants to save money, he should
  just buy you a new computer. It would be cheaper than paying me to come out
  every time.”
  
  
  “But then I wouldn’t get to see you, Mark. Unless you want to, you know, just
  meet somewhere? For a drink?”
  
  
  Uh-oh. I’d been on Earth long enough to know a come-on when I heard one, and
  getting overly intimate with the natives has been the downfall of many an
  Observer. I immediately deployed my first line of defence.
  
  
  “Sounds like fun, Amy, as long as you don’t mind my bringing homework along.
  I’m cramming for th