![]() From customer service and teaching to writing novels and psychotherapy.īut passing the Turing Test is no easy task. After all, what’s the practical difference between a computer that can imitate a person and a real person? Think of all the different jobs that can be done by a computer that can write like a regular human being. The implications of a computer passing the Turing Test are not to be understated. If he cannot reliably determine who’s the computer and who’s the human being – then the computer has successfully passed the test. The evaluator has to talk with both players and find out which one is the computer. He is given a keyboard and a restricted communication channel – where only text messages can be transferred: basically a chat. ![]() One of the two players is a computer – but the evaluator does not know which one. So Turing came up with the imitation game – now popularly known as the Turing Test. Alan Turing, a British mathematician who could be described as the prophet of the computer age, was brazen enough to raise an unprecedented question: “Can machines think?”Īlthough it was clear that the primitive computers of Turing’s time could not think, he was curious to know how we could determine what constitutes as artificial thinking. The computers of that age were gargantuan in size, humongous things operated by punched cards – but it was clear that their power would only increase. Malicious Life Podcast: Tay: A Teenage Bot Gone Rogue TranscriptĪs far back as 1950, people began comprehending the vast opportunities unlocked by computing. ![]()
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