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Turing Test Passed

schwit1 (797399) writes "Eugene Goostman, a computer program pretending to be a young Ukrainian boy, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test. The Turing Test which requires that computers are indistinguishable from humans — is considered a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence, but academics have warned that the technology could be used for cybercrime. Computing pioneer Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed the test, which requires that a computer dupes 30 per cent of human interrogators in five-minute text conversations."

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  1. Re:Turing Test Failed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do you think the test failed and is meaningless?

    --ELIZA

  2. When the bar is too high... by BlackPignouf · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the bar is too high, try limbo instead of pole vault.
    What's next?
    "Yu So Dum, a computer program pretending to be a chinese toddler, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test."

  3. Voight-Kampff test? by ScooterComputer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone ask it the questions we already know will trip up a non-human?

    "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise..."
    "You're watching a stage play. A banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog..."

    --
    Scott
    "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
  4. Re:Not literally a test by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next you'll say that Turing machines were a thought experiment and never meant to perform calculations in the real world.

  5. Re:Turing Test Failed by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heck, one of my first programs mimicked an insensate child. Here's some of the responses:





    And I'm sure it used fewer lines of code.

  6. Re:Dupe 30% of humans? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn dogs will pass that test.

    One dog would have if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

  7. Re:Not Really Passed... by James+McGuigan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now only if it could have a 33% rate success in convincing other humans it was an exiled Nigerian dictator who needed some help moving his money out of the country.

  8. Re:Turing Test Failed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it because you think that the test is failed because 30% on a small child doesn't seem anything like the real turing test that it is also meaningless?

  9. Re:Turing Test Failed by marcello_dl · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd say the test is obsolete. It's not measuring the advances in AI, but the involution of humans. Have you looked at Facebook status messages?

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  10. Re:Turing Test Failed by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    You may have passed the Turing Test, but you sure as hell failed the Whooosh-Test.

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  11. Re:Turing Test Failed by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone please verify, but I think we have a double-Whoosh here.

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  12. Re:Turing Test Failed by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.

    --MARVIN

  13. Re:An autist chat simulator duped 100% of people. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Point of order: Austin is indeed a from of mental retardation.

    I would extend that to most of Texas.

  14. Re: Turing Test Failed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pretty good, but you don't fool me, robot.

  15. Re:Turing Test Failed by Javaman59 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Computing... Verification complete.

    You seem like a sensible person.

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    I'm a software visionary. I don't code.
  16. Re:An autist chat simulator duped 100% of people. by Your.Master · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's absoexactally right. The worditudinality of an utterance is defined completely by comprehension. Anywhom that says otherwise is being an obnoxialous prescriptivist!