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AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test

Posted by Zonk on from the who-wouldn't-love-those-scamps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Passing the Turing test is the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) and now researchers claim it may be possible using the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene). This version of the Turing test pits a human conversing with a synthetic character powered by Rascals software crafted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall, by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with its new multimedia group which is designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek."

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  1. But the real question is... by Asmor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it have a little AIBO dog with a ring around one eye?

    1. Re:But the real question is... by h4rm0ny · · Score: 2, Funny


      It can handle all of those things. It's had a user account on Slashdot for the last four months. :)

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  2. Do we really... by clonan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...want the history books to report that the FIRST AI was a Rascal?

    1. Re:Do we really... by flaming+error · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why not? The first humans were.

    2. Re:Do we really... by Fx.Dr · · Score: 3, Funny

      For a brief minute, I thought the headline was referring to a certain assisted mobility vehicle...

    3. Re:Do we really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      For a brief minute, I thought the headline was referring to a certain assisted mobility vehicle...
      And to think, all this time when a old person wheeled in to the street we thought it was just incompetence. Turns out, it was the machines trying to assassinate their geriatric overlords.
    4. Re:Do we really... by pinkstuff · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're right. When the AI grows up a name like Rascal is just going to embarrass him in front of all of his other AI friends.

  3. Misread by jekewa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't read the article, but at first glance thought the title was "racists might pass Turing test."

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    1. Re:Misread by DevStar · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would give hope to Geraldine Ferraro...

  4. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right! They should call it "artificial intelligence" or something like that.

  5. recursion by aleph42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somewhere around five years of age, however, children begin to have second-order beliefs--that is, beliefs about the beliefs of others, enabling them to understand that other people can have beliefs different from their own. Now, Bringsjord's research group claims to have achieved second- and third-order beliefs in their synthetic characters. Funny how recursion is always a key for "real" abstract thoughts. You could think that adding them to the langage of the AI will bring all the problems it does in logic, but then you realize that real humans always doubt sentences with three levels of recursions (or above), and try to avoid them.

    That makes this approach all the more interesting.
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  6. If they're making a holodeck... by netruner · · Score: 4, Funny

    For heaven's sake - build a freakin killswitch into the thing!

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  7. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? by orclevegam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone know what he means by this being a "limited" version of the Turing test? The AI does ok until you ask it what the airspeed of an unladen swallow is. It also only gets the favorite color question right about 50% of the time.
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  8. oblig by aleph42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But can it do THAT:
    http://xkcd.com/329/ ?

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  9. Re:Creating a character won't help by Kelbear · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't imagine how to prepare an AI against a chatroom.

    Hotstud42: ne 1 there?
    Hotstud42: SHO ME YR BOOBIES!
    Hotstud42: I dn't think she's there.
    Hotstud42: If ur ther ewave at the camera!
    Hotstud42: c'mon if yu show ur tits I'll pay 4 private.

    Naturally should the turing test succeed, the first step is to automate webcam porn.

  10. Re:Working on a Holodeck? *%$#@!! by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they succeed I'll never get my kids out of the basement!

    If they succeed, you'll never get me out of the basement.

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  11. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? by snoyberg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you intelligent?

    I'm reading Slashdot => no. QED

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  12. Re:Working on a Holodeck? *%$#@!! by Boronx · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're in the basement with his kids?

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  13. Re:Big Changes are comming. by SBrach · · Score: 5, Funny

    You made grammar errors in your grammar correction.