Creating machines that think like people is a great challenge, but a bad idea

IN 1950 Alan Turing, a British mathematician of genius, challenged scientists to create a machine that could trick people into thinking it was one of them. By 2000, Turing predicted, computers would be able to trick most of the people most of the time--at least in conversations where neither party could see or hear the other, but instead "talk" by typing at computer terminals. Thanks to 40 years of research into artificial intelligence--a field which has adopted Turing's test as its ...

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