Category: AI
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The true Turing Test. Thinking like a woman. Being a true scientist.
You may have heard that the Turing Test, that old test of machine intelligence proposed by pioneering mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, has been passed (or at least claimed to have been passed) by computer bots emulating human responses to questions. What you may not have heard, though, is how profoundly bizarre Alan Turing’s original…
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Final state. Concsiousness. Matter...
Nano builders rejoice: for the first time, scientists have watched crystals grow atom by atom, offering incredible control over their microscopic structure. The technique could lead to customisable crystals that would find uses in diverse fields, from water purifiers to cloaking technologies. "For the first time, we can actually image the motion of individual atoms,…
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Sentient machines. Thinking in wholes. The impossibility of AI.
Sentient machines may never exist, according to a variation on a leading mathematical model of how our brains create consciousness. Over the past decade, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a mathematical framework for consciousness that has become one of the most influential theories in the field. According to…
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Watson, computers, humans becoming them...
In 2007 IBM began a research project to build a supercomputer that could quickly and accurately understand questions. Seven years later, the computer called Watson has shrunk in size and is now going mobile - IBM has challenged developers to come up with ways to take advantage of its computing power. BBC Click's Sumi Das finds out…
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IBM, Watson, non-thinking...
IBM's Watson supercomputer has already mastered Jeopardy! and can even whip up an innovative recipe. Next step: it'll be elected to the presidency after dominating against humans in a series of debates. The computer's new Debater function is what it sounds like: after being given a topic, Watson will mine millions of Wikipedia articles until it…
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