Turing test passed!

CrinkElite

Computer 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, becoming the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts say

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10884839/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html

Mad stuff! It's a brave new world we're heading for.

Scares the sh1te out of me if I'm honest.

Calina

As far as I am aware, the only information relating to this is a press release from the University of Reading. It is an extraordinary claim and as such, demands extraordinary evidence which is not, as it happens, in the press release.

That being said, I don't think they entered the spirit of Turing's requirement. We have a chatbot set up as a 13 year old Ukrainian boy. This allows to fudge around the language competency checks big time. I'm disappointed by that.

The Guardian has helpfully provided its scripts from the 2012 contest here when apparently 29% of people failed to identify it as non-human. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/09/eugene-person-human-computer-robot-chat-turing-test Given what you can see of its output there frankly I find it hard to believe it got that sort of return 2 years ago

The Turing test is iconic in certain respects although I would also say our concept of artificial intelligence has broadened a lot since he wrote his paper. However, I remain to be convinced that this is an iconic event in artificial intelligence, particularly absent indepth information of how it works.

More information - significantly more - is required.

TBF, I'd be more nervous if this claim came out of something like IBM Watson or a Google or Facebook project. For the time being, the burden of proof is still required in my view.

This is also worth a read: http://io9.com/a-chatbot-has-passed-the-turing-test-for-the-first-ti-1587834715

But as I say, available information is thin on the ground regarding what, exactly, happened yesterday.

ETA: actually. this is a much, much better read again: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/no-a-computer-did-not-just-pass-the-turing-test

CreepingDeath

Some of the 30 judges were "celebrities", who probably wouldn't know how to test an AI properly.

Eg. to test deductive reasoning on new information, to be creative or to ask it simple real world questions that a human would know, eg. which item of clothes would you put on first a jumper or a coat?

AI's shouldn't be used to mimic humans, they should be used to make advances in science, technology and biology. Also to orchestrate complex systems to make them more efficient.

maki

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-computer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml

Rucking_Fetard

Skimming these stories all day, anyone whose anyone is now saying this is a crock of sh1t, nothing to see here.

It's a chatbot entered under the guise of being a 13 year old Ukrainian with bad English to make up for it's crap replies.

Look at some of the conversations people have put up when the site wasn't down, you'd kick him in the Face if he was real.

Calina wrote: »

ETA: actually. this is a much, much better read again: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/no-a-computer-did-not-just-pass-the-turing-test

Yep. One of the better I've come across.