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Jan. 3, 2018
NEWS
Texas waits for Senate agreement on disaster aid funding
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reached a hospital funding agreement for the next five 1, asking Paxton to expedite his response “so that frastructure and the challenges it faces in serving a
proach to providing healthcare to millions of Texas handgun on those premises,” wrote Paxton.
property, a license holder may carry a handgun onto comptroller.texas.gov .
By LEON ALDRIDGE
tional alias worked without hassle I’d run into, I prom
to use PayPal. Actually, a hitch. However, selecting ised him one of those anti
el, “Another Girl, Another groundwork was laid two “cash” prompted the ques
ing “no” allowed minor al trying to order a book
tralia, India and Portugal, count employed my last telligence assumption that
and his work has garnered name as both first and last.
is accomplished lacking earlier question about the
Turing Test, and his an
swer: “(Alan) Turing said cial, determined I needed Test.
The Genuine. The Original.
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Trying to get something done online can be like dealing with a person from another planet
promotional
needs.
online can be like dealing back to PayPal, I uploaded
with another person from required documentation
titled “Another Girl, An-
other Planet”, I saw some
strange irony that trying
to get something done
quated forms of payment,
a check. Then added, “As
tion, “Is Aldridge Aldridge
your legal name?” Click-
corrections, two charac-
ters or less. Any further
change was an artificial in-
real-person intelligence.
Translation: This is going
for all your
advertising
and
State Capital
Highlights
By ED STERLING
Texas Press Association
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‘1115 Waiver’ extended
Gov. Abbott on Dec. 21 announced that the Tex-
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AG gives gun opinion
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in an opinion
released Dec. 21, said licensed handgun owners could
carry loaded weapons into Texas churches that do not
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Paying Lou should have
been easy, but the deal
went South when I tried
A Story
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Mulpurpose
BACKYARD
Mudair PAF rulumn
important concept in the
philosophy of artificial in-
telligence. Also known as
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Book order done and
a “legal” name change was
required necessitating a
driver’s license, credit card
statement, etc. All of this
the premises of church property as the law allows,”
Paxton added.
^Artificial intelligence is wonderful. I
told my computer that today is my birth-
day and it said I needed an upgrade.”
—Uncredited greeting card quote
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another planet.”
This prompted Lou’s
good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”
Safety-net hospital administrators cheered the ex-
tension.
sustainable vide notice and to allow the carrying of handguns on longer are supported by their makers, according to an
“Unless a church provides effective oral or written
notice prohibiting the carrying of handguns on its
“However, churches may instead decide not to pro
Problem: Aging technology
The Office of the Comptroller, in its Decem-
ber-January issue of “Fiscal Notes,” examines our
state government’s “aging information technology in-
Medicaid clients.
“We’re committed to delivering a
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Dec. 21 released
a statement applauding the U.S. House of Representa-
tives’ preliminary passage of $81 billion in disaster aid
to Texas, several other states and Puerto Rico.
Abbott called the House’s 251-169 vote in favor of
the aid package “a step in the right direction” but add-
ed that “more needs to be done to ensure the funds
Congress provides address the critical needs Texans
are enduring from the largest natural disaster in our
state’s history.
“We look forward to working with the Senate to
improve the disaster funding to ensure it addresses
the acute needs of Texans.”
The U.S. Senate went into recess on Dec. 22 with-
out voting on disaster funding. The recess came af-
ter senators passed a continuing resolution to avoid
a federal government shutdown for lack of a budget
agreement.
Unemployment rate falls
The Texas Workforce Commission on Dec. 22 an-
nounced the Lone Star State’s seasonally adjusted un-
employment rate fell to 3.8 percent, the lowest unem-
ployment rate recorded in four decades.
Also, the Texas economy added 54,500 seasonally
adjusted nonfarm jobs in November and annual state-
wide employment growth increased to 2.7 percent
in the month of November, marking 91 consecutive
months of annual growth.
“The addition of 330,600 jobs over the year demon-
strates the consistency with which employers in our
state create job opportunities for the highly skilled
Texas workforce,” said Texas Workforce Commission
Chair Andres Alcantar.
years.
“The new 1115 (Demonstration) Waiver ensures
that funding will remain available for hospitals to
treat and serve people across our state who are in
need of top-quality healthcare,” Abbott said.
“We are a state that is committed to providing qual-
ity healthcare to our people,” added Texas Health and
Human Services Commissioner Charles Smith. “With
this agreement, we will continue our innovative ap-
6
say they’re trying to beat what needed to happen,
the Turing Test.” Update: As of this writ-
Wikipedia adds: “Since ing, I’ve had no further
Turing first introduced his response from PayPal in-
Planet”. Lou is a newspaper years ago when I opened
editor by day and a science the account. For reasons
fiction writer other times, unknown and unnoticed,
He has authored 113 short until I began getting email
stories published in the greeting me, “Hello Al-
U.S., U.K., Canada, Aus- dridge Aldridge,” the ac-
an automated reply cov-
ering everything I already —Leon Aldridge can
knew and had already be contacted at leon-
done. Thinking I could aldridge@gmail.com.
outsmart their AI with a Other Aldridge columns
series of two-character appear on his blog site at
changes to accomplish leonaldridge.com.
artificial. And, I also re-
main known in PayPal cir-
cles as Ledridge Aldridge.
Personally, I don’t think
artificial intelligence will
ever reach the point we
cannot discern AI from
human intelligence. I
know, because I asked Siri,
and she said so. She also
knows about the Turing
W
someone invents a system py to discover real-person
PayPal for online pur- to take a while. to automatically commu- intelligence, however, I
chases with the uninten- Explaining to Lou the nicate with people, they responded with a recap of
“You ever hear of the nominations for awards by
Turing Test,” Lou asked? a number of science fic-
“No, I haven’t,” I replied, tion writers’ associations.
(in 1950) the goal of com- the correction proved to
puter science would be to be a fail. It did however,
come up with a machine prompt a real person re-
or program that, if you are sponse — a message that
communicating with it via my name was successfully
text or voice (not in per- updated to Ledridge Al-
son), you couldn’t tell that dridge. How ironic.
you weren’t communi- Real-person intelli-
eating with a real person, gence intervened to foil
Ever since then, every time my AI work-around. Hap-
healthcare system over the long term while being their premises.
churches may know what legal options they have to population growing by nearly half a million residents
improve security” in the aftermath of the Sutherland a year.”
Springs tragedy, in which a lone gunman entered a Some state agencies are running on archaic pro-
church, killing 26 people and injuring 20 others on gramming language dating back to the 1950s, Texas
Nov. 5. Comptroller Glenn Hegar said.
“If a church decides to exclude the concealed or “Each year, the state spends hundreds of millions
open carrying of handguns on the premises of church of dollars on maintaining these outdated systems, and
property, it may provide the requisite notice, thereby updating or replacing them would cost even more,”
as Health and Human Services Commission and the have posted signs banning weapons.
federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick requested the opinion on Dec.
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