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| The Child Machine
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| Hal, like any 18-month old baby, is learning the rudiments of speech. He talks about red balls and blue balls, knows his Mommy and Daddy, and likes to go to the park. A child development specialist was given transcripts of Hal's conversations with his caretakers and declared him a healthy, normal little boy. What she wasn't told is that Hal is a computer program running on a regular Windows PC. | | | | | | | | | Ai uses behaviorist principles to teach our child machine - nicknamed Hal - to hold a conversation. Our approach was outlined by the computing theory pioneer Alan Turing in his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Turing viewed language as the defining element of intelligence; he believed that by giving a machine the capacity to learn, and a willingness to ask questions, you could "raise" an intelligence, an entity capable of rational, engaging conversation. | | | | | | | | | |  Education | | | | | | Learn how Hal is being educated, and read about his training process. |
| | | | | | | | | | State of Mind | | | | | | The Ai child machine is built on a statistical model of language, coupled with advanced learning algorithms. |
| | | | | | | | | | First Words | | | | | | HAL is developed to meet basic human language development milestones. Look inside to find out what HAL's talking about. |
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