One of the biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence (AI) is thinking that it must pass the Turing Test to be truly intelligent. But AI scientists say the test is basically worthless and distracts people from real AI science. “Almost nobody in AI is working on passing the Turing Test, except maybe as a hobby,” Stuart Russell, an AI researcher at University of California, Berkeley, told Tech Insider in an interview. “The people who do work on passing the Turing Test in these various competitions, I wouldn’t describe them as mainstream AI researchers.” Named for the famed computer scientist Alan Turing, …read more
Source: Business Insider
