![]() In a frenzy of worldwide publicity, the news was described as a ‘breakthrough’ showing that ‘robot overlords creep closer to assuming control’ of human beings. According to an organizer, this was ‘one of the most exciting’ advances in human understanding. On the sixtieth anniversary of his death, the University of Reading announced that a ‘historic milestone in artificial intelligence’ had been reached at the Royal Society: a computer program had passed the ‘iconic’ Turing test. Can machines think? Turing’s famous test is one way of determining the answer.
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