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Supercomputer successfully imitates communication with a teenager

14.06.2014

In 1950, the English mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing, who made a significant contribution to the development of computer science, proposed a test, which later became known as his name.

The test allows you to determine whether the computer is able to "think". It is built on the interaction of the presenter with another person and a computer. At the same time, none of the test participants sees each other, and the interaction takes place in text form with the issuance of messages at regular intervals.

The task of the presenter (judge) is to determine which of his interlocutors is a computer and which is a person. If the choice was made incorrectly, that is, the computer program managed to impersonate a person, we can conclude that the computer is able to imitate the results of mental activity.

This happened at the University of Reading in England at the Turing Test 2014 Prize organized by the Royal Society, which involved five supercomputers. The computer program of Russian Vladimir Veselov and Evgeny Demchenko managed to convince 33% of the judges within a five-minute conversation that she was a 13-year-old boy, Eugene Goostman.

Note that since 1990, the AI Loebner competition has been held annually, in which programs also compete in passing the Turing test. The winner is the program that most realistically imitates a person, and its developers receive a cash prize of several thousand dollars. There is a $25 reward for a program that passes the Turing test, but no prize has been awarded in all these years. It should also be clarified that in the case of the Turing Test 2014 Prize, there were no restrictions on the topics of communication and the topics were not known in advance.

Of course, one should not expect useful practical applications from the Eugene program. The task of such projects is to confirm the possibility of creating artificial intelligence and stimulate interest in developments.

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