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Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to exclusive bonus content. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Mixer and sound designer: Emily Jankowski and Paul Vaitkus Show producers: Nora Saks, Amory Sivertson, Grace Tatter, and Quincy Walters. “ Google’s AI Is Something Even Stranger Than Conscious” (The Atlantic, 2022)Ĭo-hosts: Dean Russell and Ben Brock Johnson.“ Google's AI passed the Turing test - and showed how it's broken” (Washington Post, 2022).“ Turing Test: 50 Years Later” (Minds and Machines, 2000).Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind (Susan Schneider, 2019).Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI (Hector J.Alan Turing: The Enigma (Andrew Hodges, 1983).Alan Turing's “ Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (Mind, 1950).In the final episode of our Good Bot, Bad Bot series, Endless Thread visits Google, the frontier of AI, to see just how close the field is to creating bots with minds of their own. But most experts say artificial thought and consciousness are still far from reality. The Turing test inspired a host of technologies familiar today: chatbots, social media bots, voice assistants. Any machine to successfully fool its human interrogator would be functionally thinking, Turing argued. The imitation game, or Turing test as it’s called today, challenged a machine to imitate a human indistinguishably in a text-only conversation. (Courtesy of Google and Everyday Robots)Ĭan machines think? That question prompted British mathematician Alan Turing to invent one of the most influential experiments in artificial intelligence. Endless Thread visited Google's AI offices, where researchers are using an advanced language model to help this robot understand humans.
