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Robots Closer to Thinking
Written by Joe Chen on October 13, 2008 – 11:44 am -
The 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence was held at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. It pitted top artificial conversational entities (ACEs), also known as “Chatterbots,” from around the world to see whether they could fool humans into thinking they were talking to another human. Elbot, which won the $3000 top prize, was just shy of passing the Turing Test. The test is named after famous British mathematician Alan Turing, who said that a machine is “thinking” if it can be indistinguishable from a human. In order to pass the test, the robot needs to have 30% of the human subjects fooled.
While the ACEs were able to be picked out as being robots, the conversational abilities were rated to be 80 to 90%. Advances in artificial intelligence will completely change the way we interact with machines in the near future. A world such as the one in Isaac Asimov’s “Robot” series may not be as science fiction as we once believed.
[BBC News]
Tags: ACEs, Alan Turing, artificial conversational entities, Artificial Intelligence, chatterbot, Elbot, Loebner Prize, Turing, Turing Test, University of Reading
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