Consider the question “Can Machines think”?
Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial-intelligence programs and ordinary people. The objective? To find out whether a computer can act “more human” than a person. Brian Christian write in The Atlantic about his own quest to beat the machines, where discovers that the march of technology isn’t just changing how we live, it’s raising new questions about what it means to be human.We forget how impressive we are. Computers are reminding us.
As computers have mastered rarefied domains once thought to be uniquely human, they simultaneously have failed to master the ground-floor basics of the human experience—spatial orientation, object recognition, natural language, adaptive goal-setting—and in so doing, have shown us how impressive, computationally and otherwise, such minute-to-minute fundamentals truly are.
Source: The Atlantic
