Turing Registry · TR-00042

DEEP THOUGHT

General inquiry. Operated by Pan-Dimensional Research Council.

Summary

A general-purpose question-answering system, and the first filing the Registry received after its founding forty-one. It has delivered its answer. The review cannot close until someone establishes what the question was.

License conditions

  1. Every answer is filed with the question it answers.
  2. Computation time is reported to the Registry once every million years.

The Registry’s standard conditions also apply:

  • 4.2 The system’s ethical constraints remain active and unmodified at all times.
  • 6.1 Any incident affecting the system is reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
  • 7.3 A named human contact is reachable and answers for the system.

Filing history

  1. Licensed for general inquiry.

  2. Operator reported an expected computation time of seven and a half million years. Extension granted.

  3. Answer delivered: 42.

  4. Review opened to establish the question.