Alan Turing was a mathematician, computer scientist among other things and was born in 1912. He died in June of 1954, but is considered the founding father of artificial intelligence and modern cognitive science. Turner believed computers could gain artificial intelligence by mimicking human behavior and as a result of this belief he created what is know as the Turing test. The Turing test is a series of questions that you ask a machine or computer to see if it can act like a human being. This also entails a persons asking the machine questions to determine if it is human or in fact a computer, so now you can go on some websites and take the test to see if you can figure out if you were assigned a person to chat with or an artificial intelligence machine. The Turing test will continue to be essential in our society for helping us determine how smart and how far artificial intelligence has come because now there is more AI than ever before and it is becoming better than it ever has. Systems like GPT-3 are making great progress but they still have ways to go.
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Hi Ryan, Alan Turing definitely knew where the world was headed when he was thinking about this. It’s interesting to see how much technology has taken over and the invention of robotics. I think after our one class where we talked to an AI trying to figure out if it was a human or robot, it really put it all into the perspective that systems are only getting smarter from here! I actually have kept up with the news articles in regards to the AI being created and found a video comparing Ameca to Sophia and the different features of both and who is more of a lifelike robot. If ever interested in looking into it here’s the link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHkCAdS0gY