After his conviction in 1952 for gross indecency with a 19-year-old Manchester man, he was chemically castrated. Instead of being hailed a hero, Turing was persecuted for his homosexuality. During the second world war, his critical work at Britain's codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park helped shorten the conflict and save many thousands of lives. The event on Saturday was poignant as it took place on the 60th anniversary of the death of Turing, who laid the foundations of modern computing. Warwick said having a computer with such artificial intelligence had "implications for society" and would serve as a "wake-up call to cybercrime". "We are therefore proud to declare that Alan Turing's test was passed for the first time." "A true Turing test does not set the questions or topics prior to the conversations," he said. Warwick said there had been previous claims that the test was passed in similar competitions around the world. Veselov said: "It's a remarkable achievement for us and we hope it boosts interest in artificial intelligence and chatbots." The successful machine was created by Russian-born Vladimir Veselov, who lives in the United States, and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko, who lives in Russia. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting." It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. Professor Kevin Warwick, from the University of Reading, said: "In the field of artificial intelligence, there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing test. No computer had ever previously passed the Turing test, which requires 30% of human interrogators to be duped during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations, organisers from the University of Reading said.īut "Eugene Goostman", a computer programme developed to simulate a 13-year-old boy, managed to convince 33% of the judges that it was human, the university said.
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