Passing the Turing test becomes ”much easier” if it’s cloud-based, and we just need to figure out ”how to data mine” a huge ”internet-like database”.
It sounds so simple when videogame developers explain it so it must be just 5 years away, it must! ”Realistically, if you want a one-to-one conversation with an AI-driven character, that’s at least five years away,” said George Andreas.
”But thinking about where that tech is going, if it’s cloud-based, passing the Turing test becomes much easier. You just need a huge internet-like database, then work out how to data mine that,” chipped in Rare’s Kinect development director, Nick Burton.
They also talked about their upcoming Kinect Sports, with started with 20 different events but then got trimmed to just 6. ”We wanted to compete head-on with Wii Sports. We knew we could do so much more with Kinect than you could with Wii,” added Andreas.
Kinect releases November 4th in the US and on the 10th in the UK. Sorry but it’s 2015 before we can start to really get paranoid about machines wiping out our species.
