British mathematician Alan Turing predicted that one day machines would think, and devised the Turing Test of artificial intelligence. Fifty years on, are computers any smarter -- or just more talkative?
Last month, a room at a British university was full of people engrossed in online chat. One conversation ran like this:
A: I consider myself an amateur philosopher, yes.
B: Any particular branch?
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