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DeepMind Co-Founder Wants the ‘New Turing Test’ to Be Based on How Good an AI Is at Getting Rich

The Turing Test is obsolete. We can't let big biz define intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Kyle Barr Jun 20

Vintage AI Predictions Show Our Hopes and Fears Aren’t New—Even If the Tech Is

Men and women took a swan dive into neural nets and deep learning long before they had the computing power to make their imaginations a reality.

Artificial Intelligence Kyle Barr May 15

Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 told a human.

Artificial Intelligence Kevin Hurler Mar 15

Computer Science Legend Alan Turing to Appear on New £50 Note in UK

The Bank of England has announced that legendary British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing will appear on the new £50 note in the UK. Turing was chosen from thousands of names that were submitted by the public for possible inclusion on the British currency. “Why Turing? Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose works had…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 15

Computers Suck at Poetry

A poetic Turing test was held at Dartmouth yesterday to pit artificial intelligence against human poets, AP reported. Good news: the computers lost. Judges could easily tell the difference between robot-written sonnets. One of the judges, Harvard English professor and New Yorker contributor Louis Menand, cited syntactical oddities and “uses of language that were just…

Artificial Intelligence Avery Ellis May 19

A New AI System Passed a Visual Turing Test

A team of researchers from MIT has developed an artificial intelligence system that can fool human judges into thinking it’s a person when it comes to drawing unfamiliar letter-like characters. You can think of the experiment, detailed in the new issue of Science, as a kind of visual Turing Test. The software and a human…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe Dec 11

8 Possible Alternatives To The Turing Test

The Turing Test, which is intended to detect human-like intelligence in a machine, is fundamentally flawed. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved or modified. Here are eight proposed alternatives that could help us distinguish bot from human. Perhaps the best way to detect intelligence in a machine is to have it tell you…

io9 George Dvorsky Apr 15

Can You Answer These Questions That Facebook Thinks Any Good AI Should?

For decades, the Turing Test has been used as a yardstick by which to measure the abilities of artificial intelligence. But now a team of Facebook researchers has developed a set of reasoningand natural language questions that it thinks any good AI should be able to answer. Developed by a team in Facebook’s AI lab…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Mar 4

Ex Machina Trailer Is A Love Triangle Between Two Men And A Robot

28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland’s directorial debut attempts to sex up the Turing Test. And it’s creepy. Really creepy. Check out the latest trailer for Ex Machina, which sets up the story a bit better than the previous trailers. Ex Machina stars three very exciting actors that we love, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 3

Leading AI Experts Are Gathering To Improve The Turing Test

This coming weekend at Austin’s annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a group of AI experts will attend a workshop in hopes of hammering out a new-and-improved version of the Turing Test. The Turing Test, as a means to determine if a machine is truly thinking, is wholly inadequate in…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 21

A Sexually Charged Turing Test Gets Creepy In Trailer For Ex Machina

28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland is back with a new science fiction thriller, this one about the line between human and AI. In Ex Machina, a programmer is tasked with evaluating the consciousness of a female-bodied AI, and things quickly take a turn for the very weird. Here’s the official description for…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 30

Could This New Competition Replace The Turing Test?

Nuance Communications has announced a new annual competition to develop artificially intelligent agents capable of solving the “Winograd Schema Challenge”, a possible alternative to the Turing Test — and one that’s intended to provide a more accurate measure of genuine machine intelligence. Indeed, the recent proclamation that the “Eugene Goostman” chatbot had passed the Turing…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 29

What It Was Like To Judge That History-Making Turing Test

Earlier this week, a computer program passed the Turing Test for the first time in a controversial win for chatbots everywhere. Actor Robert Llewellyn was one of the judges for the test, and he gave Gizmodo an inside look at the strange experience of thinking a computer program was a real live boy. https://gizmodo.com/how-big-a-deal-is-that-turing-test-win-1588011992 Llewellyn…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 16

You Know Who Wouldn’t Pass The Turing Test? PhD Advisors

Can you tell the difference between a chatbot and a PhD thesis advisor? PHD Comics puts college professors to the Turing Test, and they fail hilariously. In response to all the hubbub about the chatbot that “passed” the Turing Test, Jorge Cham of PHD Comics posted a comic reminding us that some human beings can’t…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jun 13

Stephen Colbert Addresses the Android Threat

With the Turing test all over the news, Stephen Colbert asks “How close are we to having to battle AI for existence?” He also answers that question with “Now.” The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Colbert Report on Facebook The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 11

Why The Turing Test Is Bullshit

As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test, though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that’s nonsense. Here’s why the Turing Test is a very poor way of measuring machine intelligence. A quick recap of yesterday’s announcement:…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 9

How Big a Deal Is Passing the Turing Test?

Yesterday, a computer program successfully passed the Turing test for the first time. As is not uncommon for breakthroughs, it was a controversial victory, with plenty of detractors pointing out the various reasons that this wasn’t that big a deal after all. What is one to think! Let’s talk it out. What’s everyone so worked…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 9

Artificial intelligence outsmarts humans for the first time in history

For the first time ever, a computer program has been able to fool a human into thinking it was another human, passing the Turing Test—the benchmark for artificial intelligence.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 8

A Chatbot Has ‘Passed’ The Turing Test For The First Time

A Russian chatterbot named “Eugene Goostman” has become the first to pass the Turing Test – an assessment of machine intelligence first proposed in 1950 by visionary mathematician, logician and codebreaker Alan Turing – by convincing 1 in 3 judges that it was a 13-year-old non-native-English-speaking Ukrainian boy. Here’s What Went Down: “Eugene” and four…

io9 Robert T. Gonzalez and George Dvorsky Jun 8

A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time

This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test. The test is named after computer pioneer Alan Turing. To pass…

Artificial Intelligence Pranav Dixit Jun 8

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DeepMind Co-Founder Wants the ‘New Turing Test’ to Be Based on How Good an AI Is at Getting Rich

Vintage AI Predictions Show Our Hopes and Fears Aren’t New—Even If the Tech Is

Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

Computer Science Legend Alan Turing to Appear on New £50 Note in UK

Computers Suck at Poetry

A New AI System Passed a Visual Turing Test

8 Possible Alternatives To The Turing Test

Can You Answer These Questions That Facebook Thinks Any Good AI Should?

Ex Machina Trailer Is A Love Triangle Between Two Men And A Robot

Leading AI Experts Are Gathering To Improve The Turing Test

A Sexually Charged Turing Test Gets Creepy In Trailer For Ex Machina

Could This New Competition Replace The Turing Test?

What It Was Like To Judge That History-Making Turing Test

You Know Who Wouldn’t Pass The Turing Test? PhD Advisors

Stephen Colbert Addresses the Android Threat

Why The Turing Test Is Bullshit

How Big a Deal Is Passing the Turing Test?

Artificial intelligence outsmarts humans for the first time in history

A Chatbot Has ‘Passed’ The Turing Test For The First Time

A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time

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