I read this weekend that a computer has finally passed the legendary Turing test.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10884839/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html
Yes, apparently the software successfully simulated a 13-year-old boy, fooling the human interrogators in the course of text-based conversations.

So I wrote a TI-BASIC program on my 84+CSE to do the same thing. Whatever question you type, it replies <Grunt!>. 89% of testers believed my calculator was a British teenager. The remainder believed it was a Neanderthal.

PS: You do know what 89% of nothing is, I presume?
For a super fishy definition of passed. They believed he was 13-year-old boy who spoke English only as a second language. And had only a 30% success rate.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/turing-test-not-so-fast/
Yeah, I got so excited when I found out that artificial intelligence finally existed. When I talked to the computer, it was blatant that it was a computer and not a human. The Turing test is subjective, anyway.
elfprince13 wrote:
For a super fishy definition of passed. They believed he was 13-year-old boy who spoke English only as a second language. And had only a 30% success rate.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/turing-test-not-so-fast/
I also read that the "researcher" who hosted the event is known for making outlandish and extremely pop science claims, like that he was infected by a computer virus. The press should require peer review of some sort on these things, not that I realistically think they would ever bother.
KermMartian wrote:
...not that I realistically think they would ever bother.


Wait... isn't the definition of press "all the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and distort news, including newspapers, newsmagazines, radio and television news bureaus, and wire services"?
  
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