Computer passes Turing test for first time.

Does this mean the Skynet is just around the corner?

Skynet is already here. Her name is Siri. She's just biding her time....

That's nothing.

I have been passing the Turing test for over 40 years.

It wasn't a real Turing test.

Skynet will be back.

I have a Turing bicycle. I ride it to the market.

Here's a link to an article in the New Yorker where the test was taken to task.

All sorts of opinions on the matter...but there is no doubt that machines are becoming more sophisticated...even if not more intelligent.

Maybe a new test will be devised soon to test whether the machines are actually becoming more intelligent.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/06/failing-the-turing-test.html

I think having it pretend to be a 13 year old child made it easier for it to pass the test. I'll be more impressed when it can pass for an adult. But it won't pass my own personal Turing test until it can teach is something we don't already know, while pretending to be a human.

I think your test is more realistic than the standard Turing.

I agree.

Frank you've stimulated my curiosity. Can you provide a link to a really good Turing

…as I find it remarkable that 30 percent can be fooled

When Turing developed his test the required feat undoubtedly seemed like it would be a significant sign of machine intelligence. As this "passing" of the test shows, it's not. It would seem that Turing may not have sufficiently considered the gullibility of humans in the formulation of his test.

After many years of the ploy being used and receiving widespread attention, I still regularly get e-mail from some purported official of a government or bank promising to share a multi-million dollar windfall if I agree to be his agent in the US --- details of how I need only send him $5,000 for administrative fees to be provided upon confirming one's willingness.

Either this means there are lot of hapless, would-be cons out there still trying a play that no longer works, or enough people are still falling for it to keep if vital.

This software con was missing the classic and crucial element of all successful bunko schemes: the mark's greed, but it still relied on that other important one: gullibility.

I think intelligent machines are inevitable, but I'm dubious about how this event is any indicator of how far away the emergence of AI may be.