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IPFS News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware

Computer Passes Turing Test for the First Time

06-10-2014 • Next News Network

For decades, people have been able to have conversations with computers. However, humans have always been able to tell if they were talking with a person or computer. No computer ever built could carry on a conversation as smoothly and naturally as a person. In 1950, a computer pioneer named Alan Turing devised a challenge for those creating new computer system. This was to create a machine that could communicate so smoothly, no one could tell they were talking to a computer. That "Turing Test" has just been accomplished for the first time. A study group was asked to take part in a conversation with what they believed to be a 13-year-old boy. Instead, that boy was a supercomputer.

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