Tuesday 19 June 2012

The Turing test, and how to pass it



Turing test

Are you human or a machine? Prove it, by passing the Turing Test -- a test of the ability of a machine to exhibit intelligent behaviour.


In Alan Turing's 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, the mathematician posed the question: "Can machines think?" But almost immediately he dismissed that question as too "meaningless" to be worthy of discussion, and swapped it for the much-more specific: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?"


By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/19/turing-test

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