@article {2061, title = {Lust and the Turing test [Nature] }, year = {2015}, month = {05/2015}, publisher = {Nature}, abstract = {

Dr. Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brains Science, wrote a recent blog post for Nature entitled "Lust and the Turing test."

"By and large, we watch movies to be entertained, not to be provoked into deep thought. Occasionally, a film does both. This year{\textquoteright}s Ex Machina is one such gem. It prompted me to reflect upon the evolution of the idea of machine sentience over the past three decades of science fiction on film.

I am a long-time student of the mind-body problem {\textemdash} how consciousness arises from the brain. There is a conundrum at the heart of this ancient dilemma, challenging both brain science and AI; and it is well captured by Ex Machina and two other SF movies. In essence, it lies in how we can ever be certain that a machine feels anything, is conscious."

}, url = {http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/05/27/lust-and-the-turing-test/}, author = {Christof Koch} }