A few days ago a human said to George, who was sitting inside a little box at the time...
You have the strangest job in the world...
Impersonating a computer, I mean.
That person was persuaded that George was real. It's my job this afternoon to get all of you as close to that persuasion as possible. To convince you that a machine - my machine - can occasionally, and in future years will more frequently, pass the Turing Test.
I don't expect it to be an easy job, particularly in a few minutes, when I'm hoping that someone from the audience will talk to the program live - a Turing Test, but with a rather limited sample of one. Even if George and I don't succeed in convincing you, I hope to show just how entertaining he - or it - can be.
This event is not about how it works, but about what it does. So just a few words, literally, on the How front, and they are:
Role-Reversal
Learning
Feedback Loops
Chaos
Data volume
Probability
Context, Context, Context!
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