Where's HAL 9000? 269
An anonymous reader writes "With entrants to this year's Loebner Prize, the annual Turing Test designed to identify a thinking machine, demonstrating that chatbots are still a long way from passing as convincing humans, this article asks: what happened to the quest to develop a strong AI? 'The problem Loebner has is that computer scientists in universities and large tech firms, the people with the skills and resources best-suited to building a machine capable of acting like a human, are generally not focused on passing the Turing Test. ... And while passing the Turing Test would be a landmark achievement in the field of AI, the test’s focus on having the computer have to fool a human is a distraction. Prominent AI researchers, like Google’s head of R&D Peter Norvig, have compared the Turing Test’s requirement that a machine fools a judge into thinking they are talking to a human as akin to demanding an aircraft maker constructs a plane that is indistinguishable from a bird."
HAL? (Score:4, Funny)
Forget HAL, where is Cherry 2000!
Re:AI research is haunted... (Score:2, Funny)
The operator said that AI Research is calling from inside the house...
Re:Why not Zoidbe^H^H Watson? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why not Zoidbe^H^H Watson? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score:4, Funny)
[I]f you want to discuss whether intelligence is an emergent or inherent property we could be here all day, at least.
It is my observation that quite a few of us are here all day.