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Computer passes 'Turing Test' for the first time after convincing users it is human

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... human.html

Skynet time?

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Mmmm, not quite so. The next test is the 10 minute autonomous presentation to an audience with questions at the end and the Loebner Prize is a better version of the Turing test.
Ultimately, we are not a brain in a box, we are extremely complex, self organising, distributed network with each nerve ending being a sensor.
eg there are approx 2500/cm2 in a finger tip.
To create AI will require something like that level of sensory exchange at 1petaflop or greater per second
"Researchers used the K computer in Japan, currently the fourth most powerful in the world, to simulate human brain activity. The computer has 705,024 processor cores and 1.4 million GB of RAM, but still took 40 minutes to crunch the data for just one second of brain activity." - daily telegraph
"The human brain has a huge number of synapses. Each of the 1011 (one hundred billion) neurons has on average 7,000 synaptic connections to other neurons. It has been estimated that the brain of a three-year-old child has about 1015 synapses (1 quadrillion). This number declines with age, stabilizing by adulthood. Estimates vary for an adult, ranging from 1014 to 5 x 1014 synapses (100 to 500 trillion)" - wiki
* his is a good discussion paper on distributed network AI - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Singula ... almers.pdf
* this is a very tongue in cheek SF story I recently read about this question - http://www.wattpad.com/story/7361765-claws-and-curls

Mmmm doesn't seem like a big deal to me! *shrugs*