Even if you don't think so robots are all around us, building walls, preforming heart surgery, working in volcanoes and even making scientific discoveries. Imagine that. But replicating human intelligence and complex human intelligence is a lot harder than we thought.
There is a test called the Turing test, it tests artificial intelligence, first of all a person puts questions to a computer and another person, both of which are isolated from each other and from the interrogator. The computer and human return their answers to the interrogator. If the interrogator cannot distinguish between the computer and human, the computer has passed the turning test and is deemed intelligent.
Most people think of robots as things like robots from star wars or something but in fact robots can be completely different, doing all kinds of jobs.
In 1996 russian world chess champion Gary Kasparov played 6 rounds in chess against Deep Blue, a chess playing computer built by IBM. Kasparov won 4-2. But this was not the end, there was a rematch a year later and Kasparov lost to an updated version of Deep Blue by 3 and a half-2 and a half, it was the first time computer had beaten man in a world chess match. Deep Blue won because it was able to calculate a vast amount of moves to make and pick the best one. Also Deep Blue was completely unaffected by the emotional pressure of the match.
In the future scientists predict robots doing vast amounts of work for humans and even being faithful sidekicks.
There is a test called the Turing test, it tests artificial intelligence, first of all a person puts questions to a computer and another person, both of which are isolated from each other and from the interrogator. The computer and human return their answers to the interrogator. If the interrogator cannot distinguish between the computer and human, the computer has passed the turning test and is deemed intelligent.
Most people think of robots as things like robots from star wars or something but in fact robots can be completely different, doing all kinds of jobs.
In 1996 russian world chess champion Gary Kasparov played 6 rounds in chess against Deep Blue, a chess playing computer built by IBM. Kasparov won 4-2. But this was not the end, there was a rematch a year later and Kasparov lost to an updated version of Deep Blue by 3 and a half-2 and a half, it was the first time computer had beaten man in a world chess match. Deep Blue won because it was able to calculate a vast amount of moves to make and pick the best one. Also Deep Blue was completely unaffected by the emotional pressure of the match.
In the future scientists predict robots doing vast amounts of work for humans and even being faithful sidekicks.
Alan Turing, the man who invented the Turing test. During his life Alan Turing worked with the government in the second world war as a code cracker, Alan wrote a book in the 1950's about the Turing test and artificial intelligence, it was named Computing Machinery and intelligence. Alan himself named the turing test 'the imitation game'. Alan turing was also a brilliant mathematician, and shortly after writing his book he was employed by Manchester University, where the world's first stored-program computer had been working since June 1948, Turing's job was to create and manage the first software for the computer, however he also continued his research on mathematics. Alan Turing died by a cyanid drenched apple, his caretaker first found him in his room and his mother came to a conclusion that he had been doing some tests lately on cyanid and the poison had got into his apple and killed him. But some think he committed suicide because arousing official security problems. Turing was a great British scientist and mathematic.
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