33 percent of human judges at the Royal Society of London were fooled during 5-min convo.
by Nathan Mattise - June 8 2014Eugene Goostman is a computer, not a young boy. But this weekend, according to The Independent, its AI fooled more than 30 percent of its genuinely human judges to think the opposite. So at an event held by the University of Reading at the famed Royal Society of London, Eugene appeared to become the first AI to officially pass the Turing Test, a long-time challenge based on tech pioneer Alan Turing's question and answer game, "Can Machines Think?".
"Some will claim that the Test has already been passed. The words Turing Test have been applied to similar competitions around the world," said Kevin Warwick, a visiting professor at the University of Reading and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at Coventry University, according to the event press release. "However this event involved more simultaneous comparison tests than ever before, was independently verified, and, crucially, the conversations were unrestricted. A true Turing Test does not set the questions or topics prior to the conversations. We are therefore proud to declare that Alan Turing's Test was passed for the first time on Saturday."
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