This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. Credit...Ricardo Rey Supported by By Cade Metz Franz Broseph seemed like any ...

As increasingly sophisticated models like ChatGPT test the boundaries of machine intelligence – the potential consequences for society are profound. As artificial intelligence, AI, continues its rapid ...

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” Alan Turing We have come a long way since the beginning of modern AI in the 1950s and ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

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Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

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IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving software is not just edging closer to autonomy, it is starting to convince seasoned AI ...