A Computer finally passes the Turing test

[BEWD]

A Computer Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time

This is big. A computer 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 computer in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test.

The test is named after computer pioneer Alan Turing. To pass it, a computer needs to dupe 30 percent of human judges in five minute text-based chats, a feat that until now had never been accomplished.

“Eugene” was created by a team based in Russia, and passed the test organized by the University of Reading just barely, by duping 33 percent of the judges. It should also be noted that successfully pretending to be a 13-year-old boy for whom English is a second language ain’t exactly Hal 9000.

It’s still an obviously exciting breakthrough, though, one that has critics already raising red flags about its implications. “Having a computer that can trick a human into thinking that someone, or even something, is a person we trust is a wake-up call to cyber crime,” said Kevin Warwick, a visiting professor at the University of Reading and deputy vice-chancellor for research at Coventry University told the Independent.

Are there serious concerns about what this means for online security in the future? Sure. But today they’ll have to take a back seat to the understanding that we’ve entered a new era of computing. One that’s alive with possibilities, or at least convincingly enough so.

source: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-have-passed-th-1587780232/

inb4 Skynet.

[BEWD]

wow apparently can’t delete dup post

[Manx]

Wow. Somehow, through all my hours of Internet/technology news reading, I missed this. It is indeed big.

Now it’s time to start the story I just thought of. A computer AI that impersonates an entire country.

Thanks for the link, BEWD.

:tup:

[AlphaCommando]

Internet girlfriends for everyone! :tup:

[crucades]

Internet girlfriends for everyone! :tup:

Computers pretending to be young boys or fat guys pretending to be young girls, the internet is certainly a dangerous place

[DarkArchville]

Oh, crap! How long do we have until the world is secretly ruled by the Patriots ?

[WTF-AKUMA-HAX]

lol his name was Goostman in the opening post

fixed, I guess. Dunno what robot made you post “dup”

Meet the computer that's learning to kill and the man who programmed the chaos

Bonus link for Manx to tell us if they’re overselling this, had this tab open on GFWL support nixed in a big games list and it was a top story sidebar link.

From enough reading as I can do right now with blurry contacts and some drowsiness coming on, it seems yeah they are, and no - this isn’t close to the above link. I don’t know why I thought joystiq would be reporting on what’s being said here with the OP computer story, coming to this topic first.

But the same Skynet/Terminator references dropped for this guy’s RTS game AI too.

[WTF-AKUMA-HAX]

Internet girlfriends for everyone! :tup:

Computers pretending to be young boys or fat guys pretending to be young girls, the internet is certainly a dangerous place

This one guy said it best, so I hope I don’t paraphrase him incorrectly:

“The Internet: Where Men are Men, Women are Men, and Children are the police!!”

[BEWD]

Computers pretending to be young girls or fat guys pretending to be young girls, the internet is certainly a dangerous place

[crucades]

Oh, crap! How long do we have until the world is secretly ruled by the Patriots ?

erm since about 80 years ago lol

[Rick_Ross]

But can it run Crysis?

[po_pimpus]

I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.

How we got this far in the thread without someone else making this joke, I will never know…

[orochizoolander]

Any skynet worries will be shut down the moment that boy discovers porn…on itself…searching itself…to find itself…

Pornception.

[Joshkaz]

What if porn is what caused Skynet to exterminate the humans?

[Vynce]

Found a transcript.

2ChainZ4locoBoi: yo
Victorange: Hi there.
2ChainZ4locoBoi: sup #sup
Victorange: not too much here, you?
2ChainZ4locoBoi: playin Halo. U sound gay
Victorange: oh? I’m not. I…appreciate your curiosity though?
2ChainZ4locoBoi: Your mom appreciates my curiosity though.
Victorange: …
2ChainZ4locoBoi: thats wur ur dad said last night, nggerfggot

(It goes on this way…)

[pedoviejo]

the moment it finds 4chan…

our fate is sealed. that or the undernet

[blueleon]

I can see a “To Catch a Predator” episode featuring underage computers.

Seriously though, those russians have really created something on their hands…

[WTF-AKUMA-HAX]

Any skynet worries will be shut down the moment that boy discovers porn…on itself…searching itself…to find itself…

Pornception.

Addendum to
"bcuz you touch yourself at night"

+while talking to Eugene Goostman.
Or a new urban dictionary entry for a sexual move. The Goostman

Totally gonna use it on that guy asking why we didn’t make the pun he wanted*. Because you touch yourself at night, while cybering, chat text only version with a Eugene Goostman. Okay fine. Female version. “Irene Goochedscam.” or Gooched’him? :cybot:

*like he didn’t want to post it, or have anything to post coming in here, and wanted the “damn you said it first!” disappointment

[Shin_Jr]

[takinflight]

…would you like to play a game…?