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Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: The Turing Test is Dead: Long Live the Turing Test!
IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But …read more Continue reading Death Of The Turing Test In An Age Of Successful AIs
Researcher uses an old unCAPTCHA trick against latest the audio version of reCAPTCHA, with a 97 percent success rate. Continue reading Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API
Can you tell whether you’re talking to a human or AI? Continue reading ‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans
An exploit for the bypass vulnerability required an HTTP parameter pollution in a web application. Continue reading Google Patches reCAPTCHA Bypass
Google’s reCaptcha service has been cracked by researchers who devised an automated attack called unCaptcha that can break the service with 85 percent accuracy. Continue reading Google’s reCaptcha Cracked Again
Clara Labs, creator of the Clara AI assistant, is announcing a $7 million Series A this morning led by Basis Set Ventures. Slack Fund also joined in the round alongside existing investors Sequoia and First Round. The startup will be looking to further differentiate within the crowded field of email-centric personal assistants by building in features and integrations to address the needs of… Read More Continue reading Clara Labs nabs $7M Series A as it positions its AI assistant to meet the needs of enterprise teams
Amazon has unveiled the Alexa Prize, a $2.5 Million purse for the first team to turn Alexa, the voice service that powers the Amazon Echo, into a ‘socialbot’ capable of, “conversing coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes”.
The Alexa Prize is only open to teams from colleges or universities, with the winning team taking home $500,000 USD, with $1M awarded to the team’s college or university in the form of a research grant. Of course, the Alexa Prize grants Amazon a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to make use of the winning socialbot.
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Continue reading Amazon Offers $2.5M To Make Alexa Your Friend
This is harder than it sounds. Continue reading Who Said It: Trump or a Bot?
Artificial intelligence should have to make clear that it’s artificial intelligence and not an actual human. Continue reading AI Professor Proposes ‘Turing Red Flag Law’