While some initial reports repeated the university’s announcement unchallenged, technology experts worldwide quickly weighed in to discredit the claim. Hirst is not alone in dismissing reports of the milestone. Warwick adds that critics questioning how good the test is should know that ‘we are all skeptical in the same way…but what we did was the Turing Test’. Turing stated 30 per cent as the pass rate. “This was scrutinized by independent observers and a machine, and Eugene achieved 33 per cent success. “What we did was the Turing Test – that’s it,” Warwick told the Star in an email. He maintains that the Turing Test was indeed passed last weekend. Kevin Warwick, a visiting professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, was one of the “Turing Test 2014” organizers. Hirst argues that the University of Reading contest “misinterpreted” this statement to arrive at the 30 per cent baseline used in the contest. In Turing’s 1950 paper, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, he wrote that, “I believe that in about fifty years time it will be possible, to program computers … to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than a 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning.” Turing’s original paper specified the computer would have to pass at a rate “better than chance,” or 50 per cent of the time, says Hirst. Hirst argues that Eugene did not actually pass the Turing Test for several reasons.Ĭontest rules state that if a computer passed as a human more than 30 per cent of the time, it would pass the test. Eugene was one of five computers competing in the “Turing Test 2014” contest. The winning computer Eugene Goostman, designed by Russian and Ukrainian programmers, convinced the human contest judges 33 per cent of the time that it was actually a 13-year-old boy. Turing predicted that AI would evolve to the point that computers would fully understand human language and become capable of passing themselves off as people in onscreen conversations.
The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing, a London scientist viewed by many as one of the founders of artificial intelligence. “The Turing Test is supposed to be a test of whether a computer is genuinely intelligent in the same way a human being is,” Hirst told the Star. Yet Professor Graeme Hirst, a researcher and lecturer in computer science at the University of Toronto, disagrees.
The university published a press release on June 8 saying that the 65-year-old Turing Test was passed by a computer program named Eugene Goostman during the ‘Turing Test 2014’ contest held in London last weekend. The University of Reading in Britain announced last weekend that the Turing Test, the long-touted standard for artificial intelligence, was passed for the “very first time” - but not everyone agrees.
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