Mar 16, 2008
A second life for AI
Source: Eetimes
Passing the Turing test - the holy grail of AI (a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human) - may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene) and mimicking the behavior of a human-controlled avatar in a virtual world, according to AI experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "We are building a knowledge base that corresponds to all of the relevant background for our synthetic character--where he went to school, what his family is like, and so on," said Selmer Bringsjord, head of Rensselaer's Cognitive Science Department and leader of the research project. The researchers plan to engineer, from the start, a full-blown intelligent character and converse with him in an interactive virtual environment, like Second Life.
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Sorry, but this "limited Turing test" is way easier than the actual Turing Test... Eliza could already convince people she was human ages ago. So... no holy grail, but it will still be interesting to see what happens the first time someone propositions it for sex in Second-Life nonetheless.
Posted by: L Zoel | Mar 17, 2008
It's a fairly interesting accomplishment. It seems like ray kurzweil may be right about us having artificial intelligence in the next 20 to 50 years. It will definitely be an interesting time to see AI reach human level conversational ability. I can imagine that type of an AI might cause a lot of headaches for humans too. Imagine super AI bots on the internet and the havoc they could cause. Hopefully the benefits of the AI will outweigh the negatives, though.
Posted by: Mike | Mar 19, 2008
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