Huge landmark reached: Turing test passed

[Brannigans Law]

A Ukrainian and Russian team of scientists created an ai that fooled 33% of humans into thinking it was a person.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-is-human.html

Well, it's been a good run for us humans. Skynet will be taking over shortly.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

A Ukrainian and Russian team of scientists created an ai that fooled 33% of humans into thinking it was a person.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-is-human.html

Well, it's been a good run for us humans. Skynet will be taking over shortly.

Turing

[undercoverbrother]

well we had a good run

[CubicleGeek]

The real question is, can it beat the Voight-Kampff Test?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

A Ukrainian and Russian team of scientists created an ai that fooled 33% of humans into thinking it was a person.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-is-human.html

Well, it's been a good run for us humans. Skynet will be taking over shortly.

I call BS

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

A Ukrainian and Russian team of scientists

[Itse]

Some collected criticism.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/n...he-turing-test

Pretending to be a 13-year-old non-native English speaker is technically within the rules of the test, but it’s not what Turing had in mind.

One of Eugene’s creators said: “Eugene was ‘born’ in 2001. Our main idea was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn’t know everything.”
Turing was fairly obviously talking about a general ability to impersonate a human, not the (much easier) ability to impersonate a specific person with a highly limited communication ability and very few shared cultural reference points with the judges.

[Brannigans Law]

My bad auto. Correct strikes again

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

My bad auto. Correct strikes again

And again. If auto correct gets you this often, what chance do you have against The Machines.

[Brannigans Law]

no that wasnt auto correct that was me being sloppy, and in a panic. yikes.

[CaptainCrunch]

Are you sure your human, and we're not being turing'd right now?

[BloodFetish]

I, for one, welcome our new silicone overlords.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by BloodFetish

I, for one, welcome our new silicone overlords.

Silicone has been used for years to confuse men about what's natural or synthetic.




About this story: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...w-better.shtml

Pretty much crap. It's not even the most effective chat bot.

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Originally Posted by getbak

Silicone has been used for years to confuse women about what's natural or synthetic.

Fyp. Men don't care.

[Wormius]

I am skeptical about the perceived meaning of the test results. Does this really mean that AI is more advanced, or did regular human conversation skills devolve to the point where it is no longer possible to tell if you're talking to a human or a machine?

[kirant]

33% is pretty abysmal. Even an adjusted CleverBot passed a higher percent on a larger sample size (59.4%)

[Canehdianman]

this thread title should be changed.

The 'landmark' results have more or less been debunked now.

[NuclearPizzaMan]

This bot passed the turing test like filling in all the circles on a scantron means you found all the right answers.

[Itse]

The test was a scam really. It wasn't even an AI, just a chatbot, and a pretty crappy one at that. Here's a log, you can judge for yourself.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/response-b...he-turing-test


Here's the first question:

Question: How old are you?
Eugene: I’m a little boy. 13 years old.

If at this point you're not saying "BOT!", you probably have never met a 13-year old boy

The guy behind this "test" is Kevin Warvick, a well-known attention-craving fool, famous for headline-grabbing stunts like installing a chip under his skin and calling himself a cyborg and claiming that his colleague had been infected with a computer virus.

There used to be a whole website debunking his "contributions", but he fell out of the limelight long enough that apparently nobody bothered anymore.

Once again he got most of the mainstream media eating from his palm it seems.

[psyang]

Originally Posted by Itse

The test was a scam really. It wasn't even an AI, just a chatbot, and a pretty crappy one at that. Here's a log, you can judge for yourself.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/response-b...he-turing-test


Here's the first question:



If at this point you're not saying "BOT!", you probably have never met a 13-year old boy

The guy behind this "test" is Kevin Warvick, a well-known attention-craving fool, famous for headline-grabbing stunts like installing a chip under his skin and calling himself a cyborg and claiming that his colleague had been infected with a computer virus.

There used to be a whole website debunking his "contributions", but he fell out of the limelight long enough that apparently nobody bothered anymore.

Once again he got most of the mainstream media eating from his palm it seems.

I wish they published the logs of the actual conversations created during the test. You'd think that would be an important part of the process, even if only for posterity.