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Where's HAL 9000?
An anonymous reader writes "With entrants to this year's Loebner Prize, the annual Turing Test designed to identify a thinking machine, demonstrating that chatbots are still a long way from passing as convincing humans, this article asks: what happened to the quest to develop a strong AI? 'The problem Loebner has is that computer scientists in universities and large tech firms, the people with the skills and resources best-suited to building a machine capable of acting like a human, are generally not focused on passing the Turing Test. ... And while passing the Turing Test would be a landmark achievement in the field of AI, the test’s focus on having the computer have to fool a human is a distraction. Prominent AI researchers, like Google’s head of R&D Peter Norvig, have compared the Turing Test’s requirement that a machine fools a judge into thinking they are talking to a human as akin to demanding an aircraft maker constructs a plane that is indistinguishable from a bird."
Forget HAL, where is Cherry 2000!
The operator said that AI Research is calling from inside the house...
Im afraid Apple wont let me do that, Dave.
She gets all huffy when you ask her that.
Good-bye
[I]f you want to discuss whether intelligence is an emergent or inherent property we could be here all day, at least.
It is my observation that quite a few of us are here all day.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan