Tag: TURINGTEST

Software developer Nigel Leck can't stop picking fights on Twitter, particularly with skeptics of global warming. But arguing with the Web's non-believers [Ed. note: or, conversely, arch believers] became too exhausting for Leck. Instead, he decided to automate his high horse by building @AI_AGW, a Twitter chatbot specifically designed to counter tweeps who attempt to cast doubt on climate ...

A smart computer is growing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate NY. It's not the beginnings of Skynet (we hope) and won't be able to drive your car for you or do anything else you might consider practical. But, if everything goes right, it might just be able to fool you into thinking it's human, becoming the first such device to pass the benchmark Turing Test. In 1950 computer science ...