A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy

08 Jun 2014

Computer passes 'Turing Test' for the first time after convincing users it 
is human


A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy, 
becoming the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts say

By Hannah Furness, and agencies

A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy 
to become the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts 
have said.

Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if 
they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based 
conversations.

The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and Second World 
War codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was 
indistinguishable from a human, then it was "thinking".

No computer had ever previously passed the Turing Test, which requires 30 
per cent of human interrogators to be duped during a series of five-minute 
keyboard conversations, organisers from the University of Reading said.

But "Eugene Goostman", a computer programme developed to simulate a 
13-year-old boy, managed to convince 33 per cent of the judges that it was 
human, the university said...../snip/


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10884839/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/06/for-the-first-time-ever-a-computer-passed-turing-test-for-artificial-intelligence/372392/

http://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/university-reading-stage-turing-test-7213888

http://www.princetonai.com/bot

http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2652094/Super-computer-dupes-humans-thinking-13-year-old-boy-machine-past-Turing-Test-showing-think.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/computer-becomes-first-to-pass-turing-test-in-artificial-intelligence-milestone-but-academics-warn-of-dangerous-future-9508370.html

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/08/super-computer-simulates-13-year-old-boy-passes-turing-test

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/09/eugene-person-human-computer-robot-chat-turing-test

http://www.theverge.com/201

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120135/eugene-goostman-ukrainian-boy-ai-turing-test

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-have-passed-th-1587780232