"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

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The Turing Test Developed by: Bulkhead Interactive Published by: Square Enix Available on: PC, Xbox One For millennia, our species has understood that what helps separate us from the animal kingdom is ...

AI is ready for a new challenge: Can we train the machine behind the curtain to incorporate humanistic ethics into its processes? Artificial intelligence developers have always had a “Wizard of Oz” ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

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