Has mankind finally created a machine that can 'think' like a human?

Has mankind finally created a machine that can | Mail Online: "The pioneering British computer genius Alan Turing, one of the team who created the primitive computers that cracked the German Enigma code, had a simple test for a machine that could 'think'.

The computer had to be able to fool human beings into thinking they were talking to a person, not a machine.



At the Techniche computer festival in Guwahati in India this week, software called Cleverbot succeeded in fooling 59.3 per cent of 1,334 voters that it was a human being - far more than had participated in any previous official 'Turing test'. Has someone finally created an intelligent machine?

'You could argue that by fooling more than 50 per cent of the people, Cleverbot has passed a Turing test,' says the software's British creator, Rollo Carpenter, talking to Mail Online today. "