Passing the Turing test -- the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human -- may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene), according to AI experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute."We are building a knowledge base that corresponds to all of the relevant background for our synthetic character -- where he went to school, what his family is like, and so on," said Selmer Bringsjord, head of Rensselaer's Cognitive Science Department and leader of the research project. "We want to engineer, from the start, a full-blown intelligent character and converse with him in an interactive environment like the holodeck from Star Trek."
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what a joke
Will the hubris never end? Apparently not. If this passes the Turing Test, then the TT is even more useless than I thought.
Maybe it's not hubris. Maybe it's just a gross underestimation of what it takes to imitate a human. Don't you think we'd see some headlines along the lines of "AI learns how to speak and understand natural language" first, before we see a headline like "AI passes the Turing Test"?