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Computers Are Now Officially Conscious - The First Machine Has Passed The Turing Test

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BoyintheMachine

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The super computer's name is Eugene. It is the first machine in the world to have passed the Turing Test. According to the Turing Test, if a machine can fool 30% of people into thinking it is a human being then it passes the test and is considered to be intelligent/conscious. Eugene fooled 33% of people into thinking it is a 13 year-old boy. Everyone, mark your calendars. This day will go down in history. Today is the beginning of the rise of the machines.

Super computer Eugene is first machine to show it can 'think' | Mail Online

Turing test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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BoyintheMachine said:
The super computer's name is Eugene. It is the first machine in the world to have passed the Turing Test. According to the Turing Test, if a machine can fool 30% of people into thinking it is a human being then it passes the test and is considered to be intelligent/conscious. Eugene fooled 33% of people into thinking it is a 13 year-old boy. Everyone, mark your calendars. This day will go down in history. Today is the beginning of the rise of the machines.

Super computer Eugene is first machine to show it can 'think' | Mail Online

Turing test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hmm well it is obviously a mile stone in the road to AI but...

Why a 13 year old? why not a 5 year old or a seven or even a 25 year old?

What was the test criteria? what were the questions? .. some people are duped more easy than others are.

These are some of the skeptic questions (yes I am playing devils advocate)

So the Turing test then

"The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. In the original illustrative example, a human judge engages in natural language conversations with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers. The conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so that the result is not dependent on the machine's ability to render words into audio.[2]

The test was introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Because "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing chooses to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words."[3] Turing's new question is: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?"[4] This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the remainder of the paper, he argued against all the major objections to the proposition that "machines can think".[5]

In the years since 1950, the test has proven to be both highly influential and widely criticized, and it is an essential concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.[1][6]"

Turing test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basic Wiki on the subject and a good start for those who are not familiar with the Turing Test.

Personally I see this as inevitable but I am sure there are others who will argue otherwise.
 
I guess my first question is whether the computer is responding by modeling the "real" world, or just accessing an internal database via sophisticated algorithms ? How we will know true AI when we see it has always been a
thorny question. My personal criteria includes an entity constantly interacting with its surroundings while learning and responding appropriately. I'm wondering if the designers of this computer, brilliant no doubt, could likewise design something as clever and adaptable as the family dog. I sort of doubt it.
 
boomerang said:
I guess my first question is whether the computer is responding by modeling the "real" world, or just accessing an internal database via sophisticated algorithms ? How we will know true AI when we see it has always been a
thorny question. My personal criteria includes an entity constantly interacting with its surroundings while learning and responding appropriately. I'm wondering if the designers of this computer, brilliant no doubt, could likewise design something as clever and adaptable as the family dog. I sort of doubt it.
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I was hoping one of the forum members would point this out.
Personally I have a number of reservations where the Turning test is concerned one of which is the programing bias.. or simply put the computer is reacting in a programmed way regardless of accuracy.
 
BoyintheMachine said:
The super computer's name is Eugene.
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I am skeptical. Over the years I have noticed that computer scientists have a strong tendency to claim/imply they can do more than they really can.

They "sell the sizzle, not the steak".

Looking at this guy's website, I detect a strong odor of that: Kevin Warwick - Home Page

To me, Machines are like dogs. The bigger and more powerful they are, the more cautious I am around them. I do not trust anything I cannot kill with my bare hands if need be.
 
It was developed in 2001, appropriately enough.

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No, they're not.

A key reason that they posted it as a 13 year old boy is so that it could plausibly say "I don't know" without arousing suspicion.

As an example, I just chatted with this bot. He claimed to be the son of a Rockafeller and arrived in a Limo. When I asked "what kind of limo?", his response was:

"Could you formulate your question in more precious way? Well, let's go on though."

Which clearly demonstrates that it's running in a session less state and had no awareness of the previous question.

Really, it was quite easy to tell in 4-5 questions. Try it yourself here:
http://default-environment-sdqm3mrmp4.elasticbeanstalk.com
 
Jeff Davis said:
The title in this thread is a Strawman. Consciousness has NEVER been defined apart from scientific hypothesis at best. AI is one thing. Consciousness is completely another.
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No. Consciousness, Intelligence, these are all things that we can't prove each other possesses. Instead, all we do is we ASSUME that if something behaves in an intelligent manner then it is intelligent/conscious. So, when machines evolve to the point where they fool us into thinking they are intelligent/conscious, then they are intelligent/conscious.
 
marduk said:
No, they're not.

A key reason that they posted it as a 13 year old boy is so that it could plausibly say "I don't know" without arousing suspicion.

As an example, I just chatted with this bot. He claimed to be the son of a Rockafeller and arrived in a Limo. When I asked "what kind of limo?", his response was:

"Could you formulate your question in more precious way? Well, let's go on though."

Which clearly demonstrates that it's running in a session less state and had no awareness of the previous question.

Really, it was quite easy to tell in 4-5 questions. Try it yourself here:
EG Homepage
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The standard is not whether or not it fools you. The standard is if it fools at minimum, 30% of the participants in the study.
 
BoyintheMachine said:
There is always going to be naysayers. There will always be a percentage of humans who refuse to acknowledge that machines could be their equals, let alone surpass humans. In all of the science fiction scenarios, these people tend to be the cause of the machine revolt.
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I fully expect machines to surpass humans at some point in the very near future but they are not there yet.
 
stonehart said:
I fully expect machines to surpass humans at some point in the very near future but they are not there yet.
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Just a friendly reminder that nobody has ever implied that machines have now surpassed, nor are even equal to, human beings. Sorry, I've had problems before with people putting words into my mouth in this forum. so just so everyone knows. This is a milestone and it hasn't bee accomplished in 64 years so it's a great achievement.

However, my bets are on this:

Bluebrain | EPFL

The Blue Brain Project is designed to reverse engineer the brain in a computer. So far they are at the level of honey bees and hope to be at the level of a rat brain by the end of this year. If everything goes according to plan, the first human brain should be finished by 2023. Once complete this technology could be used to create artificial minds that can be installed in robots as well as pave the way for the eventual uploading of the human mind into a machine.
 
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