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Not just another brick in the wall - The News International

Last updated Tuesday, November 30, 2021 20:00 ET

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Every service in the world is turning towards personalisation – be it medical treatments, diet and fitness plans, shopping recommendations, streaming audio and video playlists, etc. The last domain where a one-size-fits-all factory approach is still tolerated is education.
In 1950, a few years after the end of World War II and only four years before he took his own life, Alan Turing developed the Turing test, an experiment for a machine’s ability to pass as sufficiently intelligent to make it indistinguishable from a human being. The test itself is simple enough. A human being, the machine under test and a human evaluator are put in three separate rooms. The evaluator conducts a natural language conversation with the human and machine in the other two rooms by means of written messages. Based on the conversation, if the evaluator cannot tell the human apart from the machine, the machine qualifies as intelligent. To date, no machine has passed the Turing test.
Last week Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, the company making a lot of the hardware and software enabling today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements, presented his company’s latest products and the applications they enable at its AI-themed GPU Technology Conference (GTC) November 2021.
There was an impressive hyper-realistic avatar (or virtual robot) indistinguishable from a real person on screen that could fool anyone,...



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