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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

How do we define

Artificial Intelligence?

Brett King is founder of the work classify the imitation game as World”, knowing that statistically an
revolutionary mobile-based one version or scenario of what is now autonomous vehicle will be 20 times
banking service Moven. He is more commonly known as the Turing safer than a human out of the gate.
a futurist and author, an expert Test. Hospitals and health care providers
on innovation and the future of will tout that their diagnostic AIs are
business and financial services. In the future if we call a service better than humans at diagnosing all
He gives keynote speeches organization such as an airline or a sorts of maladies.
on financial disruption, bank, we might very well suspect that
technology transformation and we’re talking to a computer or AI, but Is the Turing Test or a machine
customer experience. the interaction will be so good that that can mimic a human be the
we won’t be 100 per cent sure. More required benchmark for measuring
In 1950, Alan Turing published a importantly we just won’t care. Fifteen intelligence? Not necessarily. We
famous paper entitled “Computing years from now, machine interactions simply don’t require full Artificial
Machinery and Intelligence”. In his will be widespread, and AI/Algos General Intelligence (the industry term
paper, he asked not just if a computer will be differentiated and identified for a human equivalent AI) to have
or machine could be considered as such because they’ll simply be significant impact in employment
something that could “think”, but more better and faster at handling certain patterns or put at risk people
specifically “Are there imaginable problems over humans. For example, employed in the service industry.
digital computers which would do Uber could advertise its AI, self-
well in the imitation game?” Turing driving cars as We don’t need to wait another 10,
proposed that this “test” of a “The Safest 15 or 30 years to see this happen,
machine’s intelligence - which he Drivers and the Turing Test is fairly
called the “imitation game” - be in the meaningless as a measure
tested in a human-machine question of the ability of machine
and answer session. Turing went on in intelligence to disrupt
his paper to say that if you could not the way we live and
differentiate the computer or machine work. We simply need
from a human within 5 minutes, then to understand that AI
it was sufficiently human-like to have in society is inevitable
passed his test of basic machine and that we’re better
intelligence or cognition. Researchers off preparing for that,
who have since added to Turing’s rather than arguing over
definitions.

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