On the lovely Friday before the Georgia-LSU game, Dr. Shamp discussed Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test in class. The Turing Test was designed by Alan Turing, a famous Britain code-breaker, in the 1950s. In order to pass the test, the machine being tested must convince 30% of the human interrogators he is human.
Over the weekend, at the 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, a new computer named Elbot convinced three of 12 human interrogators he was human. That is one human short of passing the 30% mark! Elbot is the first machine to come close to passing the test.
It's scary to think that some machines have enough A.I. to make humans think they're also humans and not computers. However, I had a conversation with Elbot (have your own by going to www.elbot.com!), and I wasn't sure how he managed to convince three people he wasn't human.
For the most part, I found him to be sarcastic and cocky, and I thought he discussed how he cleaned off his rust spots way too much. He did have a few nice things to say and after I complimented him on his niceness, he told me, "for a human being, you're somewhat nice yourself. If only you had wires..."
Hmm, nice with an edge. Ultimately, I think we have a long way to go before humans need to be concerned about A.I. becoming as just like humans because though Elbot is smart and does seem to have a bit of personality, Elbot can never take the place of real human compassion.
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