

In this classic article Turing presented his well known imitation game and predicted that about the year 2000 an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning in the imitation game. His vision of the possibility of machine intelligence has been highly inspiring and extremely controversial. Turing believed that computers, if properly designed and educated, could exhibit intelligent behavior, even behavior that would be indistinguishable from human intelligent behavior.

Turing's genius was not only in developing the theory of computability but also in understanding the impact, both practical and philosophical, that computing machinery would have. Indeed, most of the debate in the philosophy of artificial intelligence over the last fifty years concerns issues that were raised and discussed by Turing. This article is arguably the most influential and widely read article in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

“Nonetheless, the data Translated collected clearly shows that machines are not that far from closing the gap.In 1950 Alan Turing (1912-1954) published his famous article, Computing Machinery and Intelligence in the journal Mind. “That’s because language is the most natural thing for humans,” Translated CEO Marco Trombetti said at a conference in Orlando, Florida, in December. Language is one of the most difficult AI challenges, but a computer that could close that gap could theoretically show signs of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). One such metric, defined by Translated, a Rome-based translation company, is an AI’s ability to translate speech at the accuracy of a human. However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for signs of reaching singularity measured by AI progress approaching the skills and ability comparable to a human. The tricky thing about AI singularity (and why it borrows terminology from black hole physics) is that it’s enormously difficult to predict where it begins and nearly impossible to know what’s beyond this technological “event horizon.” This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society.This may help quantify the speed toward singularity. A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones.By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.
