By Yelena Kovachich, Russian scientists have created a computer analogue of a human mind, the possibilities of which lag behind that of a human brain only by 0.8%.At an international contest of similar computer programs, which recently finished in London, this Russian program won the first place. All the contesting programs had to undergo the so-called Turing test. In 1950, UK mathematician Alan Turing, one of the first developers of computer technologies, suggested a test (although, at that time, it had little scientific significance and was rather a game). The rules are simple – the examiner communicates with an anonymous partner who can be either a human or a computer program. The examiner neither sees nor hears his partner – he only receives printed answers to his questions from his hypothetical interlocutor. The examiner has to guess whether he is communicating with a real human or with a computer program. As a rule, after some time, the examiner guesses it right, because no computer program that can fully imitate human thinking has been created yet – if it may ever be created at all.In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov from the Institute of Applied Mathematics said: Source: Voice of Russia.
