Poem: "Miss Turing Passes the Test"

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This poem came out of the July 7, 2009 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from marina_bonomi and siliconshaman, and selected in the generally sponsored poetry poll. Allusions in this poem refer to the Turing Test, intended to distinguish artificial intelligence. This is an early-generation ratbot.

Miss Turing Passes the Test

In the end, it was not intelligence
that convinced them.

They were testing the ratbot -
rodent brain wired to robot body -
when it got loose
and raced madly around the lab

while the girlbot
stood screaming on a chair.