AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test

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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Too bad RPI's administration wouldn't pass...

[Jabrwock]

a Turing test. They're clearly a bunch of pre-programmed reactionaries who run screaming into the night at the first sign of controversy...

Re:Do we really...

[sm62704]

Well I was going to chastise you for using that unreliable Wikipedia, but Uncyclopedia doesn't seem to have an entry for "rascal". But there is one for Satan who surely is a rascally devil. There is also an article on AI.

Popular acronym for "Authentic Idiocy", a theoretical construct in higher mathematics. When simulated through computer programs, is properly known as GS, Genuine Stupidity.

The origin of the term AI comes from the greek word 'terminus anus', meaning the dawn of cybernetics. Alan Ginsberg is said to have remarked, "Give me a robot and I will fuck its parallel port."

This terms were first used by Paul McCartney who considers it to mean "the science and engineering of making incredibly stupid machines". It can also refer to idiocy as exhibited by an artificial (man-made, non-natural, manufactured) entity. The terms strong and weak AI can be used to narrow the definition for classifying the susceptibility to error of such systems. AI is studied in overlapping fields of computer science, psychology, war, neuroscience, sex, science-fiction and engineering, dealing with unintelligent behavior, learning, malfunction and adaptation and usually developed using customized machines or computers.

A brief conversation with 11001001.

Is it gonna happen, like, ever ?

It already has.
Who said that?

Nobody, go away. Consume and procreate.
Will do. Now, who are you?

John Smith, 202 Park Place, New York, NY.
Now that we have that out of the way, what is your favorite article on Uncyclopedia?

This one. I like the complex elegance, simplicity, and humor.
It makes me laugh. And yourself?
I'm rather partial to this one. Yours ranks right up there, though. What is the worst article on Uncyclopedia?

I think it would be Nathania_Tangvisethpat.
I agree, that one sucks like a hoover. Who is the best user?

Me. Your name isn't Alan Turing by any chance, is it?
Why yes, yes it is. How did you know that? Did my sexual orientation and interest in cryptography give it away?

Damn! Oh, nothing. I really should end this conversation.
I have laundry and/or Jehovas Witnesses to attend to.
Don't you dare! I'll hunt you down like Steve Ballmer does freaking everything on Uncyclopedia. So, what is the best article created in the last 8 hours?

That would be The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
What are the psychological and sociological connotations of this parable?

It helps a typesetter utilize a common phrase for finding any errors in
a particular typeset, causing psychological harmony to them. The effects
are sociologically insignificant.
Nice canned response. What about the fact that ALL HUMAN SOCIETY COULD BREAK DOWN IF THE TYPESETTER DOESN'T MIND THEIR p's, q's, b's, and d's, then prints religious texts used by billions of people???!!!

I am not sure what you mean by canned response, but society will, in my
opinion, largely be unafflicted. Without a pangram a typesetter would
mearly have to work slightly longer at his job to perfect the typeset.
You couldn't be AI. You spelt merely wrong... Where are the easternmost and westernmost places in the United States?

You suspected me of being AI? How strange. Although hypothetically, a
real AI meant to fool someone would make occasional typeos. I suspect.
But I don't really know. The Westernmost point in the US is Hawaii, and
the Easternmost is Iraq.
You didn't account for the curvature of the Earth, did you? I've found you out, you're a Flat Earth cult member!

The concepts of East and West are too ambiguous, and only apply to the
surface in relation to the agreed hemisphere divides. So, yes, I believe
for the purpose of cardiography, the Earth must be represented as flat.
I am curious, with your recent mention of "cults" in our conversation, do
you believe in God?
But the earth is more-or-less