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As the latest set of contestants fail the infamous Turing Test, John Pavlus explores what it will take to create a computer that can think like a human.
Will we ever write a program that can pass the Turing test? (I filled in for @edyong209's awsm @BBC_Future column) http://t.co/OdjfgsHX
How close are we to creating an ‘intelligent’ computer? Could a computer ever really be described as ‘thinking’? As a computer scientist, I find these kinds of questions fascinating and it is for that reason that I arranged for the University of Exeter to host this year’s Loebner Prize on 19 October.
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what is the difference between plants and animals? You don't have to look far for an answer. Plants are, well, planted. They stay put, rooted to the earth. They don't do anything. Or rather, they do a lot, but they do it the way power stations — power plants — do things. They make good use of what's at hand. You might think that plants can't see because they don't have eyes and nervous systems. But it gets closer to the truth to remember that plants don't have eyes and nervous systems because they don't need to see.
"Numenta is creating a new type of computing technology modeled on the neocortex, the seat of human intelligence."
"Marcus Waibel interviewed legendary robotics scientist Rodney Allen Brooks on Friday, April 27th, on the Talking Robots podcast. "
"Robotics is a field that long ago left the realm of science fiction to drive advances in industrial automation, health care, space exploration, and other applications."
""A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action.""
"SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language, written by Terry Winograd at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1968-70. SHRDLU carried on a simple dialog (via teletype) with a user, about a small world of objects (the BLOCKS world) shown on an early display screen (DEC-340 attached to a PDP-6 computer). "
"“What does Cyc know?” According to founder and developer, Doug Lenat, Cyc is able to negotiate this question: “Which American city would be most vulnerable to an anthrax attack during summer?”"
" For thousands of years humans have wrestled with the question of their "human" nature. In particular, they have attempted to define themselves in relation to the animal kingdom. Yearning either to take on some of the superior attributes of other animals or to rise above their own animal nature by becoming angelic, humans have mostly sought to define themselves as a special sort of creation. "
" So if you use such terms, define what you mean! Strictly, ``symbolic AI'' is a misnomer, because connectionist systems also symbolise things. It would be better to say ``AI as computation over discrete symbol systems''. I shall explain why in the following section. However, for brevity, I'll stick to the term ``symbolic AI''. "
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explicit representation of world-models, goals, and such entitities
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AI as computation over discrete symbol systems
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