U.S. spies’ AI chief: New tests needed to differentiate man from machine

The U.S. intelligence community needs to develop a better way of distinguishing man from machine as the global race for advanced artificial intelligence accelerates, according to the AI chief for the U.S. intelligence community. Computer scientists have relied on the Turing Test framework for more than a half-century. Legendary computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an “imitation game” to help people differentiate computers from humans in an attempt to answer questions about machines’ ability to think. A new rush for AI models that can perform tasks and comprehend as well as...