Linked by Jitesh Dundas on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 08:00 UTC
Can computers win the Turing Test? Imagine a day when a machine will say, "Move over Turing! You can no longer consider machines to be less smart than humans! After all, we can think too. We do all the thinking and processing and you take all the credit, just because you are our creator! ". That would be an awkward and exciting situation. To be honest, there is a valid argument here in this imaginary conversation. As naive as it may sound for now, let me assure you that such a scenario is not far away. Applications are becoming more and more logic-oriented and increasingly intelligent.
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2005-07-08
I read the article but none of the refs it links too.
The quality of the article can be summed up by one line
"Researchers are also proposing cars, made up of nanorobots, that can change their shape as per the situation and need on the road. "
If one can believe that, then anything goes I suppose.
I studied AI at Uni some 30yrs ago, I have never seen any of the proposed work produce anything in the real world. Back then medical Doctors were expected to get expert systems to help them diagnose patients. I have never seen a Doctor use a computer for anything but note taking and record keeping.
The same elsewhere, by now there should have been knowledge domain expert systems everywhere helping professionals make better decisions. I am sure they exist somewhere, just never seen one. They never came to my field either in chip design but I remember seeing lots of papers but no products.
If we don't have even basic AI productivity tools all over the place, then AI can never be tested on the ground with millions of users.
I remain as skeptical as ever, make research into products then we can believe it and see it evolve.
BTW, as someone else said, hardware and software really does mostly suck in ways that won't help AI move forward. AI is intrinsically a parallel computation that doesn't need to run at GHz. The brain only runs neurons in ms time scales. GHz PCs are darn good at transcoding videos, but the architecture for brain like computations needs to look more like a database engine with specialized hardware or software to mimic low level processes.
Passing the Turing test means nothing unless you know what the dialog was about and the Elbot dialog didn't seem very deep to me, sort of canned responses like in Eliza. The real issue is that AI must exhibit really deep knowledge about many issues and be able to demonstrate that knowledge to the enquirer.