Watson may have triumphed at Jeopardy!, but Brian Christian examines computer intelligence more closely in the Atlantic. Christian recently participated in the Turing Test: “I will sit down at a computer and have a series of five-minute instant-message chats with several strangers. At the other end of these chats will be a psychologist, a linguist, a computer scientist, and the host of a popular British technology show. Together they form a judging panel, evaluating my ability to do one of the strangest things I’ve ever been asked to do. I must convince them that I’m human. Fortunately, I?am human; unfortunately, it’s not clear how much that will help.” Every year, the artificial-intelligence community gathers for a Turing Test — the winning (i.e. “Most Human Computer”) computer is awarded the Loebner Prize. The winning human, on the other hand, receives another prize: “Most Human Human award.” [%comments]
Is the Computer Really Smarter?
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Picard will always be a better captain than Data. Kirk will always be a better captain than Spock.
i hadn’t heard about the turing test until i read this blog and it sounds extremely interesting. It made me think, how could i convince someone im human? Alot harder than it sounds.
Although we may think that computers are able to think faster than any human being, what they, the computers aren’t capable of is connecting dots on their own. They are all programmed and cannot create without the command of doing so. Watson may have triumphed overall in the jeopardy games, but there is still a long way for computers to go in order for us to fear them and their intelligence. Afterall, its just stored knowledge.
Who really cares? We know that computers compute but do not show emotion like humans do. Do we really need a test to tell us that? No.