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the Turing Test

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Dog interacting with a statue of Alan Turing in Manchester, failing the Turing test. Posters miss the irony.

Rodney Brooks

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Have you ever wondered: Am I a human being? Ze Frank suggests a series of simple questions that will determine this. Please relax and follow the prompts. Let's begin ...

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You've probably heard of the Turing Test for artificial intelligence, but how does it work? And what does it mean if a robot passes it?

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What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence. But British computer scientist Alan Turing decided to disregard all these questions in favor of a much simpler one: Can a computer talk like a human? Alex Gendler describes the Turing test and details some of its surprising results.

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Can machines think? As artificial intelligence technology grows ever more useful and commonplace, it's a question that has computer scientists scratching their heads.

But it was first asked more than half a century ago - by the "father of modern computing and artificial intelligence", Alan Turing.

Get with the program and discover the moving story of Turing's life, his many legacies to computer science and society, and find out how his work is still central to modern artificial intelligence and computing.

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The Margaret Boden Lecture 2019: 'Smart Machines and a Reverse Turing Test'. Given by Professor Daniel Dennett (Tufts) at the Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Hosted by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

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Discussion of the 1950 paper by Alan Turing that proposed what is now called the Turing Test. This is one of the most impactful papers in the history of AI and the first paper in the AI paper club on our Discord. Join here: https://discord.gg/lex-ai

Slides for this video: https://bit.ly
References sheet: https://bit.ly/turing-test
Lex + AI Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/lex-ai

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - Paper opening lines
3:11 - Paper overview
7:39 - Loebner Prize
11:36 - Eugene Goostman
13:43 - Google's Meena
17:17 - Objections to the Turing Test
17:29 - Objection 1: Religious
18:07 - Objection 2: "Heads in the Sand"
19:18 - Objection 3: Godel Incompleteness Theorem
19:51 - Objection 4: Consciousness
20:54 - Objection 5: Machines will never do X
21:47 - Objection 6: Ada Lovelace
23:22 - Objection 7: Brain in analog
23:49 - Objection 8: Determinism
24:55 - Objection 9: Mind-reading
26:34 - Chinese Room thought experiment
27:21 - Coffee break
31:42 - Turing Test extensions and alternatives
36:54 - Winograd Schema Challenge
38:55 - Alexa Prize
41:17 - Hutter Prize
43:18 - Francois Chollet's Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge (ARC)
49:32 - Takeaways
56:51 - Discord community
57:56 - AI Paper Reading Club

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