AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test 337
An anonymous reader writes "Passing the Turing test is the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) and now researchers claim it may be possible using the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene). This version of the Turing test pits a human conversing with a synthetic character powered by Rascals software crafted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall, by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with its new multimedia group which is designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek."
But the real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Do we really... (Score:4, Funny)
Misread (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? (Score:5, Funny)
recursion (Score:2, Funny)
That makes this approach all the more interesting.
Re:Do we really... (Score:5, Funny)
Turing Test is Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
That's hogwash. Any number of real people I talk to could easily be simulated by some non-intelligent machine. Especially over the phone, to tech support etc.
Slashdot alone is proof of the fallacy of the Turing Test. Unless all you ACs and TrollMods are actually bots. Or maybe it's me. That would explain a lot
If they're making a holodeck... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? (Score:5, Funny)
oblig (Score:2, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/329/ [xkcd.com] ?
Re:Creating a character won't help (Score:3, Funny)
Hotstud42: ne 1 there?
Hotstud42: SHO ME YR BOOBIES!
Hotstud42: I dn't think she's there.
Hotstud42: If ur ther ewave at the camera!
Hotstud42: c'mon if yu show ur tits I'll pay 4 private.
Naturally should the turing test succeed, the first step is to automate webcam porn.
Re:Turing Test is Nonsense (Score:-1, Funny)
Our next test will involve conversation with women; please stay tuned.
Re:Working on a Holodeck? *%$#@!! (Score:3, Funny)
If they succeed, you'll never get me out of the basement.
Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm reading Slashdot => no. QED
Re:Do we really... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Creating a character won't help (Score:1, Funny)
It's interesting that you bring this up. I've long been of the opinion that it would be trivially easy to pass a turing test by posing as an adolescent girl in a chat room. This isn't an insult to women (which would be politically correct). I'm not saying they're dumb. I'm saying that the lonely guys in those chatrooms, like Hotstud42, have such a low threshold for what they're willing to chat with, that they'll keep chating with anything. So I'm saying that males are dumb (which is politically acceptable, so I'm sure everyone will happily agree with me)
Re:Working on a Holodeck? *%$#@!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Misread (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do we really... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Big Changes are comming. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But the real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
It can handle all of those things. It's had a user account on Slashdot for the last four months.