{"id":11654,"date":"2014-06-30T00:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11654"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:12","slug":"how-will-we-know-when-computers-can-think-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/how-will-we-know-when-computers-can-think-for-themselves","title":{"rendered":"How Will We Know When Computers Can Think for Themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> Headlines recently exploded with news that a computer program called Eugene Goostman had become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/10884839\/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html\">the first to pass the Turing test<\/a>, a method devised by computing pioneer Alan Turing to objectively prove a computer can think.<\/p>\n<p>The program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR583836.aspx\">fooled 33% of 30 judges<\/a> into thinking it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy in a five-minute conversation. How impressive is the result? In a very brief encounter, judges interacted with a program that could be forgiven for not knowing much or speaking very eloquently\u2014in the grand scheme, it\u2019s a fairly low bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/06\/29\/how-will-we-know-when-computers-can-think-for-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Headlines recently exploded with news that a computer program called Eugene Goostman had become the first to pass the Turing test, a method devised by computing pioneer Alan Turing to objectively prove a computer can think. The program fooled 33% of 30 judges into thinking it was a 13-year-old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47017,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions\/47017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}