Zabawares Ultra Hal Technology Participates in Historic Turing Test
Summary
" Because the meaning of "thinking" is hard to define, the devised test works by having computers imitate humans in order to fool judges into believing they are talking with a machine.The winning bot was Eugene Goostman, which was scripted to pretend to be a 13-year old Ukrainian boy who is a non-native English speaker.The sponsors of the event pre-screened many bots and invited the 5 bots they felt were the most elite in the world.The test was introduced by famous British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing in a 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," where he comes up with a way to test the question "Can machines think?" Because the meaning of "thinking" is hard to define, the devised test works by having computers imitate humans in order to fool judges into believing they are talking with a machine.An iPhone and Android version is in the works but not yet available.Below is an unedited excerpt of one of the 30 sessions Ultra Hal has had with one of the Turing Test Judges this past weekend.
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