AI is closer than ever to passing the Turing test for ‘intelligence’. What happens when it does?
- Written by: Simon Goldstein, Associate Professor, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University, Australian Catholic University
Pexels/Google Deepmind, CC BY-SAIn 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested if a human couldn’t tell whether they were speaking to an artificially intelligent (AI) machine or another human after five minutes of questioning, this would demonstrate...
