It is done. For the first time in history, a computer with artificial intelligence passed the Turing test. To be happy or to collect an alarming suitcase - you decide, one thing remains: there is no turning back. The creation of artificial intelligence, the power of which will surpass the human one, is not far off. But first, let's figure it out.
According to The Independent, the program convinced people that a 13-year-old boy was sitting at the computer. This means actually passing the Turing test, when a computer cannot be distinguished from a person. This is a major milestone in the development of artificial intelligence, but scientists are already warning that this technology can be used to commit cybercrime.
Computing pioneer Alan Turing argued that a computer can be called a thinker if it passes a test in which it has to trick (mislead) 30% of its interlocutors in the form of five minutes of text messages.
Eugene Goostman, Eugene Gustman, Eugene Goostman is a computer program created by a team of Russian programmers who have successfully passed a test at the Royal Society in London. Thirty-three percent of judges believed they were talking to a person, according to scientists at the University of Reading, who organized the test.
From now on, it can be considered that this is the first computer to pass the landmark test. Although other programs are also close to success. A year ago, during the Turing 100 test (in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing, if he lived to this day), Eugene Goostman received extremely high marks from the judges. Along with the program, Cleverbot, Ultra Hal, Elbot the Robot and JFRED, familiar to many, passed the test.
A version of Eugene, created back in 2001, is also available on the Internet. The computer program claims that she is a 13-year-old boy from Odessa, Ukraine.
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“Our main idea was that he knows everything and knows nothing, and Eugene's age explains this,” says Vladimir Veselov, one of the creators of the program. "We spent a lot of time developing a character with a believable personality."
The success of the program is likely to raise some concerns about the future of computing, says Kevin Warwick, visiting professor at the University of Reading and deputy vice chancellor for research at Coventry University.
“There is no more significant and controversial stage in the field of artificial intelligence than the Turing test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of investigators that it is not a machine, but a person. Having a computer that can deceive a person can be considered a wake-up call for the development of cybercrime."
Try to imagine how important it can be to transform any cyber interlocutors with artificial intelligence into almost people by correspondence. When spambots become indistinguishable from humans.
In the Royal Society test, five programs were tested. Alan Turing created his test while writing Computing and Intelligence. In it, he noted that since "thinking" is difficult to define, it is important to understand whether a computer can mimic a real human being. Since then, the test has become a key element of the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
On the 60th anniversary of Turing's death, the test was passed.