{"id":604,"date":"2008-10-14T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/10\/14\/rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-almost-human\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T05:03:45","slug":"rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-almost-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-almost-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#039;s Blog: Almost human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be lying if I said i would be a little sad If i haven&#8217;t even contributed to the field of artificial intelligence and the suddenly all the major obstacles have been solved. I would be but i would also be elated and would do everything I could to help this old but still infantile persuit.<br \/>\nAlmost human<br \/>\nOctober 12, 2008<br \/>\nIn the final round of competition for this year&#8217;s Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence, held today at the University of Reading in the UK, a robot came within a whisker of passing the Turing Test. In a series conversations with people, the winning robot, named Elbot, fooled 25% of its interlocutors into believing it was a genuine human being. A score of 30% would have been sufficient to pass Turing&#8217;s criterion for a true artificial intelligence.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/almost_human.php\">Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#8217;s Blog: Almost human<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be lying if I said i would be a little sad If i haven&#8217;t even contributed to the field of artificial intelligence and the suddenly all the major obstacles have been solved. I would be but i would also be elated and would do everything I could to help this old but still infantile &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-almost-human\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#039;s Blog: Almost human&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}