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An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life
schliz notes a development out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where researchers have successfully created an artificially intelligent four-year-old capable of reasoning about his beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age. The technology, which runs on the institute's supercomputing clusters, will be put to use in immersive training and education scenarios. Researchers envision futuristic applications like those seen in Star Trek's holodeck."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1914251 yesterday!
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
Just yesterday, it was in the news that Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the first such program, Eliza, had died. Eliza's interaction with real people troubled many.
News article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23615538/
If you go back and read the criteria for the Turing test you'll discover that one of the conditions of the test is that the conversation could be restricted to a single area of interest, thus asking "what does coffee taste like" would be outside of the bounds of the test unless you were specifically talking about coffee.
Anyway, a better argument is that the Turing test was passed ages ago, but it's not a very good test for intelligence. The biggest problem is that it requires the human on the other end of the line to make the judgment and humans are not particularly good judges of intelligence.
I read the internet for the articles.
Here is a link to the RPI article that talks about this. Credit where credit is due. Not credit for an article by "news.au". Honestly, this *is* interesting... but is it too much to ask the Slashdot editors to check for original links for stories?
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