TED-Ed

The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human? - Alex Gendler

TV-PG
2016 • E47    Apr 24, 2016    5m
What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence. But British computer scientist Alan Turing decided to disregard all these questions in favor of a much simpler one: Can a computer talk like a human? Alex Gendler describes the Turing test and details some of its surprising results.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Patrick Smith.

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