Passing The Turing Test
It appears that the holy grail of computing, proving that artificial intelligence can equal that of the human being, is about to be tested.
The Turing test, named after Allen Turing, is about proving that a computer can communicate with a human without the human knowing that the party on the other side is a machine…
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is aiming to pass AI’s final exam later this year by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with a new multimedia group designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek.