Alleged Turing Test Success
Reading University posted this article on their own website:-
TURING TEST SUCCESS MARKS MILESTONE IN COMPUTING HISTORY
Over on Facebook, my friend Jonathan MacDonald published a brief Voice of Reason post:
- which I can totally get behind. It got me thinking... and here are my thoughts:-
FYI I do not mean in any way to laud the recent chatbox hypefest, specially as I found out that bellend Kevin Warwick was involved and spouting off.
Here's some more reading (no pun intended):-
No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better
TURING TEST SUCCESS MARKS MILESTONE IN COMPUTING HISTORY
Over on Facebook, my friend Jonathan MacDonald published a brief Voice of Reason post:
Folks. Chatbot vs. Turing test. The Chatbot is not thinking in the cognitive sense. Pls avoid linkbait.
- which I can totally get behind. It got me thinking... and here are my thoughts:-
I think Turing's test was intended to highlight the fact that no-one could define or explain or measure cognition - real thinking - by offering instead a pragmatic, black-box type of test. It seems to me that he was saying, for all his mathematical and logical prowess, that the best discernment of "thinking" came from the gut - i.e. intuition (another thing we do not understand): If it sounds like thought and it smells like thought (to me) then maybe it is.
A: Is it a clock?
B: I can't tell you yet. I haven't opened it up and figured out how it works and if it has the bona fide workings of a clock inside it.
A: Well then - what time is it?
B: Oh...
A: Is it a clock?
B: I can't tell you yet. I haven't opened it up and figured out how it works and if it has the bona fide workings of a clock inside it.
A: Well then - what time is it?
B: Oh...
FYI I do not mean in any way to laud the recent chatbox hypefest, specially as I found out that bellend Kevin Warwick was involved and spouting off.
Here's some more reading (no pun intended):-
No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better
11/6/2014 0:08 AM
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