Computer passes Turing Test
Quote:a supercomputer has passed the 65-year-old iconic Turing Test. Supercomputer Eugene Goostman during Turing Test 2014, which was held at the renowned Royal Society in London, succeeded in duping researchers that it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman, while it was actually a computer program.
If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30 per cent of the time during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations it passes the Turing test. Eugene, for the first time, managed to convince 33 per cent of the human judges that it was human.
Quote:Professor Kevin Warwick, a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at Coventry University, said, "In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human.
"Some will claim that the Test has already been passed. The words Turing Test have been applied to similar competitions around the world. However this event involved the most simultaneous comparison tests than ever before, was independently verified and, crucially, the conversations were unrestricted. A true Turing Test does not set the questions or topics prior to the conversations.
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