It's claimed that some computers can now pass the Turing test: convincing people that they are human. Tim Harford asks how important that distinction is, and what it means for the future of human interaction.
Last on
Sources
Robert Epstein "From Russia, with Love. How I got fooled (and somewhat humiliated) by a computer" Scientific American MindΒ 17
A. M. Turing "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"Β Mind 1950
Brian Christian "The Samantha Test" The New Yorker 30 December 2013
Kenneth M Colby, James B Watt and John P Gilbert "A Computer Method for Psychotherapy: Preliminary Communication" Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 142 No 2 (1966)
Chris Baraniuk "How Talking Machines are Taking Call Centre Jobs" Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News 24 August 2018
Brian Christian The Most Human Human New York: Doubleday 2011
Adam Smth The Wealth of Nations 1776
David Autor "Why Are There So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation" Journal of Economic Perspectives - Volume 29, Number 3 - Summer 2015
Deters, F.G & Mehl, M. R. (2012) Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment. Social psychological and personality science, 4(5), 10.1177/1948550612469233.Β
Broadcasts
- Sat 31 Aug 2019 04:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & South Asia
- Sat 31 Aug 2019 13:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service News Internet
- Sun 1 Sep 2019 14:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia & South Asia
- Sun 1 Sep 2019 21:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Sun 1 Sep 2019 22:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Mon 2 Sep 2019 03:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia
Podcast
-
![]()
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
The stories of inventions, ideas and innovations which helped create the economic world
