In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing devised a rather simple test for evaluating the intelligence of a computer. In the “Turing Test,” a human evaluator holds a conversation with two or more “people” in which one individual is secretly a computer. The computer tries to imitate a real person, and if the evaluator is fooled, then the computer has reached human intelligence. At the time, Turing estimated that computers capable of passing this test would be developed by the turn of the century. But as anyone who has talked to Cleverbot knows, we are still far from achieving this goal.…
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