Tag: Turing test
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Let’s talk about sex (dolls)
I’m not all that interested in sex dolls, actually. But what I am interested in is the reactions they provoke from people when they consider the nature of intelligence. My view – pretty much that followed by Alan Turing in his pioneering paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” – from which we get the “imitation game”…
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The opportunities of AI
Embed from Getty Images A computer program – AlphaGo – has now beaten the world’s greatest Go player and another threshold for AI has been passed. As a result a lot of media commentary is focusing on threats – threats to jobs, threats to human security and so on. But what about the opportunities? Actually,…
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The intelligent computer has arrived
At least, that is the claim being made by the University of Reading and it seems to have some credibility – as a computer entered into their annual “Turing Test” appears to have passed – convincing a third of the judges that it was a human and not a machine. This definition of intelligence relies…
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Turing, Hofstadter, Bach – with some Cherla thrown in
A few weeks ago I attended the morning (I had to go back to work in the afternoon) of the BCS doctoral consortium in Covent Garden in London – watching various PhD students present their work to audience of peers. The presentation which most interested me was that of Srikanth Cherla who is researching connectionist…
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Leonardo DiCaprio to play Alan Turing?
I hadn’t realised this before (update: err, actually I did – I wrote about this in October 2011 too, oops) but apparently Leonardo DiCaprio is to play Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game“, a biopic. It’s fantastic news, not just because the idea of the film itself is appealing but because DiCaprio is surely one…
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