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Updated Turing Test Proves How Dumb AI Chatbots Are

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Artificial intelligence has been on humanity's radar for quite some time. But recent developments such as AlphaGo's triumph over Lee Sedol and Watson winning the quiz show Jeopardy have given us an even greater and discomfiting awareness of the vast strides that have been made in this field. On the other hand, Microsoft's famously bungled attempt to create an AI Twitter account, which started spouting racist and genocidal vitriol within a day, reminds us that an AI-orchestrated apocalypse is still far off. Indeed, the simple fact of the matter that all iPhone users realize is that Siri hasn't even quite mastered the nuances of human colloquialisms and syntax. This is precisely the point that the Winograd Schema Challenge seeks to prove.