Machines That Think, Diagnose, and Teach–Brave New World
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In 1950, the Turing Test–named after Alan Turing, a British mathematician and founder of computer science–was established to determine if an artificial intelligence (AI) program could be written that would convince judges–who would pose questions through a computer terminal to a human and the AI program–that they knew whether a human or machine was answering their questions. For the past two decades, a prize of $3,000 was given. In2009, a human won–but just barely.
Recall also Garry Kasparov beating Big Blue in chess in 1996 and then losing to the machine next year.
And just a month ago, Watson beat two human contestants at “Jeopardy.” Looks like AI machines are on a roll
