Artificial intelligence failed to convince a number of people that they were also human at the annual Turing test , named after Alan Turing , creator of the first computer . One of the testers , author David Boyle , noted that the AIs failed to understand jokes . Though one of the robots told a joke , when asked why it was funny , the AI lacked an answer . No computer program seemed close to passing so, in 1990, the inventor Hugh Loebner founded the prize that bears his name, a kind of Turing test lite. The AIs being tested were “ huge achievements ” , Boyle said , but their lack of understanding gave them away . Boyle ’s theory is that the fallibility of language is what makes us human , and the robots ’ inability to understand this is why “ thinking AI ” will not be produced any time soon .
Artificial intelligence failed to convince a number of people that they were also human at the annual Turing test , named after Alan Turing , creator of the first computer . One of the testers , author David Boyle , noted that the AIs failed to understand jokes . Though one of the robots told a joke , when asked why it was funny , the AI lacked an answer . The AIs being tested were “ huge achievements ” , Boyle said , but their lack of understanding gave them away . Boyle ’s theory is that the fallibility of language is what makes us human , and the robots ’ inability to understand this is why “ thinking AI ” will not be produced any time soon .