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Can You Tell the Difference Between AI And Reality? http://ift.tt/2sPW9NK Artificial intelligence (AI) has fascinated technologists for more than a century. Since the first machines took over computational processes for human computers, we’ve been intrigued by the idea of a machine that can pass as human. In 1950, Alan Turing developed his eponymous test to pinpoint the exact moment at which this becomes possible. The test, which asked a human judge to evaluate the behavior of a human and a machine to determine which was the machine, is the bellwether against which the advancement of AI has been measured ever since. For decades, the very idea of a machine passing the Turing Test was a fantasy. Movies like Bladerunner turned the conceit into sprawling sci-fi epics, but Turing didn’t develop his test in the vacuum of fiction. He foresaw a future when a machine would pass this test. While Turing expected machines to reach this state by the year 2000, in reality, we are just now reaching the threshold at which AI can passably take on the role of a human operant in certain conditions. And futurist Ray Kurzweil expects that we won’t see a machine pass a long-form Turing Test until 2029. What was once an intellectual exercise, however, has become a part of our daily lives. You likely receive emails generated by machines, interact with chatbots and customer service phone assistants operated by machines and engage with predictive applications as part of your job each day. The Infiltration Of Machines Into Everyday Life Alan Turing foresaw a world in which a computer with 100 megabytes of memory could fool humans 30 percent of the time. As with many predictions of his time, he severely underestimated just how advanced our technology would become in the 50 years after his prediction was made. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, described what he saw as the future of the semiconductor business -- an exponential doubling of components per chip that would allow for faster, smarter and more expansive machines at unexpected speed. At the time, his predictions seemed too aggressive, but between the futurist views of Turing and the science fiction future of film director Ridley Scott, Moore’s Law has found a middle ground that is driving the rapid growth of technology in our lives. We’ve reached a state in which processing power is a given. Our devices are faster and more powerful than we reasonably need for daily tasks. If you want to open 40 tabs in your web browser, watch a movie and edit photographs on your laptop, the machine has the power to do it and then some. Where all that exponential growth is being directed, however, is into the systems that power everything we do. Business via Forbes - Entrepreneurs http://ift.tt/dTEDZf February 23, 2018 at 08:56AM
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