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Related: About this forumComputer passes 'Turing Test' for the first time after convincing users it is human
A ''super computer'' has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts have said.
Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based conversations.
The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was indistinguishable from a human, then it was ''thinking''.
No computer had ever previously passed the Turing Test, which requires 30 per cent of human interrogators to be duped during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations, organisers from the University of Reading said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10884839/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)Okay, it's officially time for me to pack it in, now. There's nothing left to live for.
-- Mal
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Might be remade with Ron Howard directing and Will Smith starring.
The 1969 movie
When the executives at Control Data Corporation found out that Universal was planning a major movie featuring a computer, they saw their chance for some public exposure, and they agreed to supply, free of charge, $4.8 million worth of computer equipment and the technicians to oversee its use. Each piece of equipment carried the CDC name in a prominent location. Since they were using real computers - not just big boxes with a lot of flashing lights - the sound stage underwent extensive modifications: seven gas heaters and five specially-constructed dehumidifiers kept any dampness away from the computers, a climate control system maintained the air around the computers at an even temperature, and the equipment was covered up at all times except when actually on camera. Brink's guards were always present on the set, even at night. The studio technicians were not allowed to smoke or drink coffee anywhere near the computers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)can't find it now, it was ahead of its time.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Part was filmed at Lawrence Hall of Science not far from where I lived.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Jim__
(14,045 posts)Oh please post the transcript.....someone out there....PLEASE! Ms Bigmack
muriel_volestrangler
(101,149 posts)...
The test, organised at the Royal Society on Saturday, featured five programmes in total. Judges included Robert Llewellyn, who played robot Kryten in Red Dwarf, and Lord Sharkey, who led the successful campaign for Alan Turing's posthumous pardon last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/computer-becomes-first-to-pass-turing-test-in-artificial-intelligence-milestone-but-academics-warn-of-dangerous-future-9508370.html
paulkienitz
(1,295 posts)and that you end up wondering how people could have been fooled.
Computers still fail at actually comprehending English. But once they do, I think we'll have to conclude that this amounts to intelligence, because the other criteria are turning out to be too easy.
Note that intelligence and consciousness are entirely separate questions here. The former is within sight, while the latter still leaves us baffled as to how we'd even make a start.
flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)shenmue
(38,501 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Same here.
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)cause it swore and used bullshit too much
http://www.ibtimes.com/ibms-watson-gets-swear-filter-after-learning-urban-dictionary-1007734
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)Yuri Matiyasevich solved Hilbert's tenth problem -- to devise an algorithm to determine in a finite number of operations whether a diphantine equation is solvable in integers -- negatively in 1970, by showing that such an algorthm could be used to solve the halting problem for Turing machines, so cannot exist
xocet
(3,870 posts)Here is some additional background information that may be of interest:
http://www.zalafilms.com/films/julia.html
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)xocet
(3,870 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Why such a low cutoff?
robbob
(3,514 posts)You can program a computer to win at chess. You cannot create a computer that CARES whether or not it wins at chess.
What we have created is the ability to mimic human behavior. Self awareness, "thought", "mind"; this is another issue altogether, one which I don't know if we will ever (or perhaps should ever WANT to) be able to create.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"The capacity to become insane."
Insanity is in this case defined as 1. acting against preprogrammed behavior, 2. acting irrational.
A possible proof of intelligence would be the construction of a piece of art (expressing an abstract concept with material means): Crafting a statue has no physical influence on the environment, apart from the waste of its resources. Therefore crafting a statue is irrational and therefore it is a sign of intelligence.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)paulkienitz
(1,295 posts)"thought" is another matter. If a machine can do rational problem solving with real-world problems that require comprehension of what it sees and hears around it, then I'd say that constitutes thought and intelligence, even when consciousness is absent.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)How long before it notices the effects of its own actions?
TrogL
(32,818 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)paulkienitz
(1,295 posts)They successfully convinced unqualified judges they were talking to a poor foreign kid with very limited English.
MADem
(135,425 posts)....
Okay, almost everything about the story is bogus. Let's dig in:
It's not a "supercomputer," it's a chatbot. It's a script made to mimic human conversation. There is no intelligence, artificial or not involved. It's just a chatbot.
Plenty of other chatbots have similarly claimed to have "passed" the Turing test in the past (often with higher ratings). Here's a story from three years ago about another bot, Cleverbot, "passing" the Turing Test by convincing 59% of judges it was human (much higher than the 33% Eugene Goostman) claims.
It "beat" the Turing test here by "gaming" the rules -- by telling people the computer was a 13-year-old boy from Ukraine in order to mentally explain away odd responses.
The "rules" of the Turing test always seem to change. Hell, Turing's original test was quite different anyway.
As Chris Dixon points out, you don't get to run a single test with judges that you picked and declare you accomplished something. That's just not how it's done. ...
...Oh, and the biggest red flag of all. The event was organized by Kevin Warwick at Reading University. If you've spent any time at all in the tech world, you should automatically have red flags raised around that name. Warwick is somewhat infamous for his ridiculous claims to the press, which gullible reporters repeat without question. He's been doing it for decades. All the way back in 2000, we were writing about all the ridiculous press he got for claiming to be the world's first "cyborg" for implanting a chip in his arm. There was even a -- since taken down -- Kevin Warwick Watch website that mocked and categorized all of his media appearances in which gullible reporters simply repeated all of his nutty claims. Warwick had gone quiet for a while, but back in 2010, we wrote about how his lab was getting bogus press for claiming to have "the first human infected with a computer virus." The Register has rightly referred to Warwick as both "Captain Cyborg" and a "media strumpet" and has long been chronicling his escapades in exaggerating bogus stories about the intersection of humans and computers for many, many years.
Basically, any reporter should view extraordinary claims associated with Warwick with extreme caution. But that's not what happened at all. Instead, as is all too typical with Warwick claims, the press went nutty over it, including publications that should know better. Here are just a few sample headlines. The absolute worst are the ones who claim this is a "supercomputer.".....
Jim__
(14,045 posts)...
Turing proposed his famous test back in 1951, calling it the imitation game. The idea stemmed out of his famous work on what is now known as the Church-Turing hypothesis [6], the idea that computers (very broadly defined) can carry out any task that can be encoded by an algorithm. Turing was interested in the question of whether machines can think, and he was likely influenced by the then cutting edge research approach in psychology, behaviorism [7], whose rejection of the idea of internal mental states as either fictional or not accessible scientifically led psychologists for a while to study human behavior from a strictly externalist standpoint. Since the question of machine thought seemed to be even more daunting than the issue of how to study human thought, Turings choice made perfect sense at the time. This, of course, was well before many of the modern developments in computer science, philosophy of mind, neurobiology and cognitive science.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Besides which, Turing = genius, but Turing test = bullshit.