In recent years, there have been several reports about the impact of AI on employment opportunities. Some negative (robots taking over jobs) and some positive (AI creating new jobs).
So we asked Carlo...
Another concern is whether those AI systems are getting just a bit too smart.
To answer that question, we need to talk about the Turing Test. Maybe you've heard of it?
Displaying intelligent behaviour versus being intelligent.
Named after Alan Turing
Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a well-known and influential computer scientist. He was extremely interested in human intelligence and also in machines. In the end, he became famous, particularly for his Turing Test.
Ready for the test?
According to Alan Turing, the test is successful if you are unable to tell whether you are talking to a person or a computer. Because that will mean that the computer is just as smart as a human! It goes like this: a test subject talks with two participants through a chat program. One participant is human, the other is a computer.
But to what extent is such a chat program actually intelligent?
The chat program is good at just one thing: chatting like a human. That's still limited. It can't conduct bad news conversations or improvise if something unexpected happens.
Intelligence is not a contest.
According to Professor Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam - VU), we need to look at a new collaboration. He calls this 'hybrid intelligence'.
(... drum roll...)
Congratulations!
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