[Tyler]

No Skynet: Turing test 'success' isn't all it seems
9 June 2014, 2:40 pm

The success of chatbot Eugene Goostman in passing the Turing test is all over the media today. It's clever, but the truth is murkier and more complicated.

Source: New Scientist - Robots

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[Freddy]

Quite a good article, this bit I liked :

How exactly to translate Turing's ideas, conceived long before chatbots existed, into a meaningful test of artificial intelligence has been a matter of debate for some time. But as early as 1991, a bot called PC Therapist created by Joseph Weintraub took part in a Turing test and fooled 5 out of 10 judges into thinking it was human – a pass rate of 50 per cent. Meanwhile, much more recently, in 2011, Rollo Carpenter's Cleverbot chatted with 30 humans in front of a live audience of over 1000 and fooled 59.3 per cent of the judges and audience into thinking it was human.

I must have missed that Cleverbot thing.