Alan Turing

• PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Turing, the world's first AI-powered tech services company, today announced the results of its AI-accelerated software development study.
• The findings of Turing's AI-accelerated development experiment have yielded a 25% average increase in developer productivity, demonstrating generative AI's significant impact on accelerating software project delivery and overall product innovation cycles.
• The results also show productivity improvement continues over time, indicating generative AI's long-term impact.
• "The software development landscape is evolving, with AI enhancing rather than replacing the central role of engineers," said Jonathan Siddharth, Turing's CEO and Co-Founder.

• In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think?
• Today, more than 70 years after Turing’s proposal, no AI has managed to successfully pass the test by fulfilling the specific conditions he outlined.
• Given the rapid progress achieved in the design of natural language processing systems, we may see AI pass Turing’s original test within the next few years.
• And if not, what are some alternative benchmarks we might use to measure AI’s capabilities?

Limitations of the Turing test

• While a system passing the Turing test gives us some evidence it is intelligent, this test is not a decisive test of intelligence.
• Even if AI systems have the underlying ability to pass the Turing test, this kind of programming would override that ability.
• In other words, while passing the Turing test is good evidence a system is intelligent, failing it is not good evidence a system is not intelligent.
• The Turing test does not answer the question of whether or not AI systems have these abilities.

AI’s growing capabilities

• That is: humans are intelligent, so anything that can effectively imitate humans is likely to be intelligent.
• But this idea doesn’t tell us anything about the nature of intelligence.
• More intelligent systems are those which can achieve a wider range of goals in a wider range of environments.

Is the Turing test still relevant?

• The Turing test is a measure of imitation – of AI’s ability to simulate the human behaviour.
• Large language models are expert imitators, which is now being reflected in their potential to pass the Turing test.
• The best way to understand AI’s intelligence is to monitor its progress in developing a range of important capabilities.

• Nanjing, China--(Newsfile Corp. - September 22, 2023) - On September 20th, the "2023 Fantastic China: Touch Nanjing", hosted by the Center for International Cultural Communication of China International Communications Group (CICC), came to a successful conclusion.
• The profound historical charm of Nanjing, an ancient capital, captivated the visiting guests.
• Image 3: The guests visiting the Nanjing Longtan Railway Co., Ltd. to learn about the operation of the China Railway Express.
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  Members of the visiting delegation shared their views in the Nanjing Peace Forum.

• said Landmark Ventures CTO, General Partner and Founder/Host of Landmark Ventures CIO Summit Anthony Juliano .
• Speakers for the 2023 Landmark Ventures CIO Summit include:
  JP Calderon Del Vecchio, SVP Chief Information Security Officer - PVH Corp.
• Landmark Ventures CIO Summit is produced with the support of its partners, including Startup Nation Central , Lightspeed Venture Partners , Astrix Security and Turing .
• To view the full Landmark Ventures CIO Summit speaker roster and learn more, visit landmarkciosummit.com.