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Very nice. How long before something this good is available as open source? A tough test would be to hook this up to a police/fire scanner, or air traffic control radio.
Presumably you could feed it speech from a running instance of gnu-radio.
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This is also true for pwople. How do you know humans are thinking and not following lots of social rules they learn thanks to special neural hardware for learning social interaction? Think about the intelligence conveyed in ritualized greetings.
You are recapitulating Descartes. Consciousness appears to be immeasurable. You can only know that you are conscious. It is polite to give others the benefit of doubt.
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I'm curious, what is your definition of AI?
A machine process qualifies as AI if it believes in a god. EDIT: I see the nuances of epistemological problems are lost to HN and knee-jerk culture war atheism still rules supreme.
Very nice. How long before something this good is available as open source? A tough test would be to hook this up to a police/fire scanner, or air traffic control radio.
Nice to read this, being someone who uses lots of Microsoft products, but I have mixed feelings: after all these years Cortana still understands 0.0% of my native language (Dutch). Very disappointing, especially seeing that Google has no problems understanding Dutch.
What do you think the chances are that Philips is working on this?
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The touring test shows AI has little to do with image or speech recognition. An AI that operates in a purely virtual environment would still be revolutionary.
The Turing test doesn't test for intelligence , simply human-like communication. Things like lying, typing errors, or reaction to insult aren't indicators of an artificial intelligence, but are requirements for passing the Turing test. One of the biggest criticisms of the Turing test is, because it's a behavioral or functional test, there is no way to ensure that the computer is actually thinking intelligently at all…
Can you think of a better one?
> because it's a behavioral or functional test
What else would you test for in an AI other than its output and behavior? Conversely: how would you test a human for intelligence other than through its output and behavior?
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I don't get why that's frustrating, without image and speech recognition AI isn't possible. -- How intelligent could people be without sensory perception? Hellen Keller is the exception, take away the ability for humans to process sound, and images as a species and we wouldn't be nearly as advanced as we are today even if we still had the same brain structure and mental capacity. Ray Kurzweil understood this and is w…
> I don't get why that's frustrating, without image and speech recognition AI isn't possible Wait, what? The most commonly known (and perhaps oldest) AI test in no way requires either image nor speech recognition. Millions of blind and deaf human beings would like to disagree with your claim that they are not intelligent or sentient beings. Seriously, what is the basis of this claim?
I hope it will be integrated soon with the Speech API as well ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361633(v=office.1... ).
I look forward to being able to converse with Microsoft's research team as easily as I can with humans. I hope that one day, journalists can learn to write headlines with similarly low rates of error.