Turing here we come!
During my daily idling/review of what is going on in the IT world, I came across the new challenge RPI is undertaking. Using IBM’s super computer “Blue Gene“, an artificial agent will attempt to pass the famous Turing test by October 2008.
First of all I am very proud and happy to see RPI in a leading role again. I have met with members of the Rascal team and they deserve a good achievement for all the hard work they have put into their belief and mental representation systems.
The Turing test is a tremendous step for Human-Computer interactions. Once a machine can “pass” as a human, there are virtually no limits between our interactions. Or is there?
Given the current state of information understanding (and representation) I can already imagine “search interactions” between Google and its users:
User:
- Dear Google, how are you doing today. I am looking to buy a frog?
Google:
- Today: 54deg. east wind.
- Google: GOOG, 2%.
- Best Deal ever, click here for your mortgage.
- add any “conjunctions of results here….”
So I wish best luck to the RPI team, and I promise we are trying to catch up on Semantics understanding. Soon enough maybe we’ll have real interactive semantically aware assistants.
