Computer becomes first to pass Turing Test in artificial intelligence milestone

Yes it would be a cool coincidence. But I see I was wrong 60 years was on the 7th of June, so the article a day late.
 
 
Space_Chief said:
Big deal. A computer program running on top of fast hardware is able to simulate responses produced by a 13 yea old boy. So what? It does not make the computer conscious though, and that's what counts.
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it's still a big deal cause it's a milestone to reach that conscious level.
 
Space_Chief said:
Big deal. A computer program running on top of fast hardware is able to simulate responses produced by a 13 yea old boy. So what? It does not make the computer conscious though, and that's what counts.
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Not the point. The point is that it can emulate a human, not be a human. That means AI isn't too far off from being able to fool us for being sentient, not actually being sentient. There was a thread a while ago about entropy in memory access, proving it is impossible to have sentient machines.

Still cool though. Can't wait for my car and house to talk back to me, and I'm not "crazy" anymore.
 
Space_Chief said:
Big deal. A computer program running on top of fast hardware is able to simulate responses produced by a 13 yea old boy. So what? It does not make the computer conscious though, and that's what counts.
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That's what it wants you to think. ;)

Watched Resident Evil ? The red queen AI was personified as a little girl.

The end is coming.
 
That combined with Intels' ideas on thought processing (the ability to interact with computers via your thoughts)... I can really see the future becoming like the movies by the time that I become old and grey.

Person of Interest anyone?
 
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So it convinced some people in an online chat. So what. The real test will be if it can convince a Catholic priest :p
 
a 13yr old boy? what did the computer just respond , girls, boobs and whatever to any question asked?
 
Now this is awesome. Can't wait for a terminator to pop up and the war begins.
 
More likely - you'll never really know if the other person on the forum is human. Or...

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Space_Chief said:
Big deal. A computer program running on top of fast hardware is able to simulate responses produced by a 13 yea old boy. So what? It does not make the computer conscious though, and that's what counts.
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Turing test isn't about it being conscious it is just about being able to simulate human behaviour effectively enough that we can't tell the difference.

That alone is impressive.
 
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porchrat said:
Turing test isn't about it being conscious it is just about being able to simulate human behaviour effectively enough that we can't tell the difference.
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Precisely. If you put a person in one room and a computer in the other, and transfer notes with questions & responses between them, you should not be able to tell that a computer is conversing with you.
 
Being a programmer, I've puzzled over this for a while. One can make a library of responses and give a program the means to deduce logic ie: read information and doing research when it finds something not in it's database but that's all I could ever think to get it to... a really smart program that can respond to stimuli and teach itself what new items are but actual understanding or innovation, that just doesn't seem possible.
 
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