- Eugene Goostman a robot passed the Turing test – making it the first robot to do so over sixty years
- Alan Turing, the pioneer of artificial intelligence conducted a test a computer must convince its human interrogators that it is also human
- 30 judges were asked to interact with 10(5 robots,5 humans) participants to differentiate between the two
- Eugene Goostman, created by Vladimir Veselov and Eugene Demchenko was successful in the Turning test.
- Critics have pointed the direct interpretation of Turing’s words in the implementation of the test
- Fooling the judges to believe it was human was not because of conversation but that of personality says the critics
- Turing never called it a test, he only called it an imitation game in his 1950 paper and his goal was only to get away from arguments about whether or not a machine could think says said Deepak Khemani, professor at IIT Madras
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech-and-agri/did-eugene-goostman-really-make-the-grade/article6128302.ece
Exams Perspective:
- Turing Test
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robots