It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Siri Passes The Turing Test

Rick Bookstaber is a Research Principal in the Office of Financial Research. We can start counting the days until computers routinely win a Turing Test. It will happen for two reasons. One reason, which is the basis for a post I wrote on the Turing Test earlier in the year, is that we are meeting the computers half way. The more we become twittering, texting beings, the easier it is for a computer to mimic us, because we are stripped of much of our human context and behave more like computers.