AI Computer is the First to Pass Turing Test

Alan Lewis of Sigma Tech Analysis writes in the Guardian newspaper of the danger of Artificial Intelligence as the first computer simulacrums pass the legendary Turing Test.  Proposed by the brilliant gay mathematician and computer theorist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge the abilities of machines, we now live in a world where advanced chatbots can hoodwink humans that they are dealing with a real person.  Alan Turing would have been impressed, but his formulation also contains a warning as we move into a world where computers can mimic humans.  Mr Lewis writes “As with other significant technologies that have had an impact on human civilisation, their development and deployment often proceeds at a rate far faster than our ability to understand all their effects – leading to sometimes undesirable and unintended consequences.             We need to explore these consequences before diving into them with our eyes shut. The problem with AI is not that it is neither artificial nor intelligent, but that we may in any case blindly trust it.”