![]() ![]() The challenge is to construct a “chatterbot” that can pass for a human in blind side-by-side “conversations” that include real people. A variation of it has been turned into a recurring world competitions. If we can talk to machines, aren’t we well on our way to singularity?įor one answer consider the Turing Test, the challenge laid down by the World War II code-breaker Alan Turing. ![]() In pleasant Haddonfield New Jersey, of all places, they are shot on sight for sport.įantasies of machine intelligence have lately given way to IBM’s “Big Blue” and “Watson,” mega-computers with amazing memories and-with Watson-a stunning speech recognition capability that is filtering down to all kinds of devices. In the film intelligent “mechas” (mechanical robots) are generally nicer than the humans who created them. Kubrick’s vision of very smart computers is also evident in the more recent A.I., Artificial Intelligence (2001), a project started just before his death and eventually brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg. The central agent in the film is the HAL-9000 computer that begins to turn off the life support of the crew during a long voyage, mostly because it “thinks” the humans aren’t up to the enormous task facing them. Who would have thought that Strauss waltzes and images of deep space could be so compatible? Functionally, the waltzes have the effect of juxtaposing the familiar with a hostile void, making the film a surprising celebration of all things earthbound. For decades it’s been the stuff of science fiction, reaching perhaps its most eloquent expression in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 motion picture, 2001: A Space Odyssey. We are awash in articles, books and films about the coming age of “singularity:” the point at which machines will supposedly duplicate and surpass human intelligence. Most measures of artificial intelligence use the wrong yardsticks. ![]()
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