![]() ![]() ![]() RATH: People who are into science, I think, especially, get really excited when we see this headline, computer passes the Turing Test. But most people aren't fooled into thinking that Siri is an actual person. MARCUS: Siri, like this program Eugene Gustman, interacts with you. RATH: Siri kind of does that, right? You ask your phone questions, and you can even throw in some abstract ones and it will come up with some creative responses, on occasion. And that's basically what actually happened, is somebody managed to build a computer program that was good enough to fool a third of the judges. So you text message to a computer or a person, you don't know which. So those of you who don't remember what a teletype is can think of it as text messaging back and forth. GARY MARCUS: It was devised in the teletype era. I asked him to explain how the test works. Gary Marcus is a professor of cognitive science at New York University. Last week, a computer program pretending to be a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Gustman was the first to pass the test - meaning the age of artificial intelligence has begun - maybe. He also devised the Turing Test, a measure of artificial intelligence. The code breaking skills of mathematician Alan Turing helped the Allies win World War II. It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. ![]()
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