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Man to cede more ground in war against machine
8:58AM ON
10/05/2008
BY
Dave Segal
Turing test likely broken by this time next week:
Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the answer is yes….
No machine has yet passed the test devised by Turing, who helped to crack German military codes during the Second World War. But at 9am next Sunday, six computer programs - ‘artificial conversational entities’ - will answer questions posed by human volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first recognised ‘thinking’ machine.
If any program succeeds, it is likely to be hailed as the most significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence since the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be ‘conscious’ - and if humans should have the ‘right’ to switch it off.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:42AM
joe bernstein Says:
There will be a discussion of whether machines have “rights”?How asinine in the face of a large number of judges and politicians who don’t believe the unborn have rights.Right out of the fuckin’ Peter Singer playbook.
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October 5th, 2008 at 1:08PM
Alex Says:
I’ve seen enough movies to know that we should not proceed any further.
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