64 years after the father of computer science, Alan Turing, proposed a method of testing whether a machine has obtained human-level intelligence, a 13-year-old AI boy called Eugene Goostman has finally become the first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing Test. Don’t worry, though, sentient computers aren’t about to take over the world: The Turing Test is actually rather flawed, and doesn’t really measure an AI’s capability for intelligent thought.
Researchers at the EPFL in Switzerland have built one of the fastest robots on the planet. According to a press release, the multi-axis arm can catch all manner of crazy shaped objects in less than five hundredths of a second. That sounds pretty impressive, even looks impressive, but what else can it do?
A man we will be hearing a bit more about in the future, Henry Markram, has just sold the European Union a brain in a box for €1 billion ($1.4 billion). The Human Brain Project will not create the equivalent of a mind in a box, but it will certainly generate new ideas, force consensus as to what canonical form actually comprises the anatomy of the brain, and drive the field forward.
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