The Turing test is fake

The Turing test is fake.
But even so, the claim that the new AI is smarter than humans or that it can learn more than the average person seems implausible.

To test the machine's abilities, the researchers sent it text messages in which they gave it the task of identifying the names of different foods, the Times reported.

The messages are also similar to those that the robot had previously been given, meaning that the algorithms have to have learned similar patterns.

Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption A photo of a food robot that had been trained to recognise names

"The problem with the AI is that it can't learn," John von Neumann, a computer scientist at Google, told the BBC.

"It won't try to figure things out on its own, and you don't want a machine learning all of your preferences. But once you tell it a word with which it doesn't already have a common lexicon, the problem of how it could learn that word goes away."

Dr Kwan Kim, chief scientist for Watson's research wing at