Is flat-pack furniture the ultimate test for robots?
Artificial Intelligence experts are devising a new way to test machine intelligence.
Prof Gary Marcus from 'Beyond the Turing Test Workshop' told BBC Click's Spencer Kelly the Turing Championships would host a series of events to test different parts of what defines intelligence.
"We are trying to figure out a way of evaluating real progress towards artificial intelligence," said Prof Marcus, "not the kind of narrow progress where you build a computer programme that can do one thing," he added.
The tests could include requiring a machine to assemble flat-pack furniture from a diagram - and the required parts - or a completing a comprehension challenge, Prof Marcus explained.
05 Feb 2015
- From the section Technology