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It's in all the papers and news and science web sites, but all the reports seemed to me to be a simple rewording of the same press release, with no real background information. None of them gave even part of a transcript of the conversations.
Turns out it wasn't exactly a hoax, but it certainly wasn't the milestone in computing that it was claimed to be either.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-supercomputer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml
I heard the John Humphrys "interview" with it this morning.
It was rubbish (the AI computer).
Which programme was that on, allthepies?
I'd like to hear it if it's available on the web.
Radio 4 Today programme today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z/episodes/player
The "interview" was on at about 06:40 so 40ish mins in to the programme (when they make it available online - tomorrow)
I heard the interview as well, the giveaway was the dodging of the 'who are your friends' question with another question, as well as being a bit too eager with the facts about russia
computer wasn't surly enough to be a teenager 😀
Surely the giveaway was that Kevin Warwick aka Captain Cyborg was involved media give far too much credibility to "experts" without basic fact checking.
"as far back as 1991, Warwick was predicting "real life Terminators" within ten years."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/10/world_to_captain_cyborg_youre_rumbled/
I liked this quote from that link, danny79;
The Turing Test cuts both ways: so far from being a test of how intelligent the software is, it's a test of how intelligent the judge is - or the media reporting the contest.
Not sure the Turing test really means anything, if a machine passes then what?
@Danny79- yeah, when I heard that Kevin Warwick had something to say about it, I thought the same thing.
[quote=mudshark said]Not sure the Turing test really means anything, if a machine passes then what?
Skynet becomes self aware.
Well that's the thing, a machine that passes the test can't be considered to have consciousness - or can it? What would it take for that to happen?
My ZX Spectrum could accurately simulate a 13-year-old boy. Just produce a random sequence of mumbles punctuated by the odd 'it's not fair!' and 'I hate you!'.
Would it be unethical to switch the power off on a machine which had exhibited "consciousness"?
How would you know if it had?