I had no idea Google were into conversational systems. Of course the KB can be derived using their search algorithm, modifying it to return phrases and not pages for example, but still...turing's all in the conversation...
The turing test was invested by Turing at a cross-dressing party, where a man had to pretend to pose as a woman and vice versa. It was astute of him to adapt that to the computer.
The thing is, nothing says that it will impove our lives that much. I mean we first have to answer the question "what do we want from our computers" - yes we want thinking machines, but why would we want a machine that pretends to think?
Ah well....
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I don't see how it's gained "so much traction so quickly", it's been around for ages, just nobody bothered with it.
I had no idea Google were into conversational systems. Of course the KB can be derived using their search algorithm, modifying it to return phrases and not pages for example, but still...turing's all in the conversation... The turing test was invested by Turing at a cross-dressing party, where a man had to pretend to pose as a woman and vice versa. It was astute of him to adapt that to the computer. The thing is, nothing says that it will impove our lives that much. I mean we first have to answer the question "what do we want from our computers" - yes we want thinking machines, but why would we want a machine that pretends to think? Ah well....