On 06/20/2018 05:30 PM, juan wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:04:01 -0300 Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka@gmail.com> wrote:
Computers beat humans at chess in 1997, beat humans at Jeopardy in 2011, and beat the world's best Go players in 2017. This Monday, a computer won a far more nuanced competition: debate.
sorry let me rephrase :
a computer won
so what does that mean? What are the implications of that particular piece of fake news, and glaringly absurd 'fact'? Why is the fake-news-meme 'computer won debate' being pushed? What's the 'tactic and strategy' behind this round of psychological warfare?
FTA: "In one debate, Noa Ovadia overall nudged two people among a few dozen in a human audience toward her perspective that governments shouldn't subsidize space exploration. But in the second, Project Debater soundly defeated Dan Zafrir, pulling nine audience members toward its stance that we should increase the use of telemedicine." So maybe AI performs best when advocating for the superiority of its fellow machines. :D The gadget in question managed to win a popularity contest of sorts. As such I think this does indicate continuing advancement on the Turing Test front. If industrial 'civilization' lasts another decade or so, I expect to see AI successfully emulate human conversation - depending of course on context. Where a clever human suspects an AI masquerading as human, a few well calculated questions should give the AI real problems. Which means, real learning opportunities... :o)