Many are reporting that a 13 year old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman has passed the Turing Test. Well, not an actual boy—Eugene is a computer simulation.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/KyleTress\/status\/475734158464278530\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheRickWilson\/status\/475711677040971776\n
What’s a Turning Test<\/a>? Basically it is a test to measure a computer’s ability to think like a human being. <\/p>\n A test proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing, and often taken as a test of whether a computer has humanlike intelligence. If a panel of human beings conversing with an unknown entity (via keyboard, for example) believes that that entity is human, and if the entity is actually a computer, then the computer is said to have passed the Turing test.<\/p>\n Basically, the Eugene Goostman simulation fooled about thirty percent of the human judges into thinking Eugene was a human being. Not everyone is convinced that this is such a big milestone though.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Grady_Booch\/status\/475799173636177920\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redditIAmA\/status\/475805073973317633\n To be honest we’re not sure whether Martin O’Malley’s Reddit AMA<\/a> would have passed. <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/edyong209\/status\/475775747840548864\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Mad_Science_Guy\/status\/475776535211696129\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/askingalot\/status\/475815120136712192\n It’s no small feat to be sure. As with a lot of things, the real implications won’t truly be understood until the media circus leaves town. <\/p>\n Scientific achievement like anything else on Twitter is always a good excuse for jokes. <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/joe_hill\/status\/475786719824850944\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/andylevy\/status\/475761264174456832\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Beschizza\/status\/475786770807025664\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JeriLRyan\/status\/475815603497082880 Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/06\/08\/has-a-computer-finally-passed-the-turing-test-also-whats-a-turing-test\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/johnmartz\/status\/475778525828747264 Many are reporting that a 13 year old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman has passed the Turing Test. Well, not an actual boy—Eugene is a computer simulation. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/KyleTress\/status\/475734158464278530 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheRickWilson\/status\/475711677040971776 What’s a Turning Test? Basically it is a test to measure a computer’s ability to think like a human being. A test proposed by British … Continue reading Has a computer finally passed the Turing Test?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2321,2322,2320],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-alan-turing","tag-eugene-goostman","tag-turing-test"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14317479541564-turing-test.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}