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First-Person Shooters Get Their Own Turing Test
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We're bound to spawn computers smarter than us in the next ninety years or so. So we may as well start hoping they have our best interests at heart, says Wake author Robert J. Sawyer. More »I'm Sorry, I Can't Connect Your Call, Dave
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Google's "Suggest" Feature Brings Net One Step Closer to A.I.
You may notice a new feature called "Suggest" when you use Google this week — the search engine will now suggest possible searches you might want to do. So, for example, if you type something like "Invasion of . . . " into the Google search bar, Google will helpfully suggest things like "invasion of privacy" or "invasion of Georgia." The search engine's anticipation of what you want may feel like a crude form of A.I., but it can't figure out truly important things, such as the fact that you were actually searching for "Invasion of the Booby Snatchers." Still, these kinds of search features are making it obvious that A.I. will probably emerge out of services like Google Search that aggregate data and make inferences based on it. More »Five Future Lawsuits We’re Already Working On
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One of the most popular futurist hobbyhorses is the idea that artificially intelligent machines will soon become ubiquitous and change the world forever. This is an old dream, which may have started with Isaac Asimov's idea that superintelligent computers would take over the geo-political management of Earth (see the final story in I, Robot) and create a more rational world. Early computer geeks like Alan Turing imagined that AI would simply be a perfected human brain, sentient but far more powerful and capable of solving problems humans can't. Most scientists and futurists agree that true AI has the potential to create a better world, but what can you put on your to-do list today that will help make AI a reality in fifty years? Actually, there's quite a lot. More »