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 .
Artificial intelligence failed to convince a panel 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 mistakes gave them away. Boyle’s theory is that the fallibility of humanity is what makes us human, and the robots’ inability to grasp this is why “thinking robots” will not be produced any time soon.