Blake Richards is Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and a Core Faculty Member at Mila. Richards’ research is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. His laboratory investigates universal principles of intelligence that apply to both natural and artificial agents. He has received several awards for his work, including the NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022, the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award in 2019, and a CIFAR Canada AI Chair in 2018.
Talk
Revisiting the Turing test in the age of large language models | June 13
Sessions in which Blake Richards participates
Thursday 13 June, 2024
The Turing test was originally formulated as an operational answer to the question, “Can a machine think?”. Turing provided this operational test because there is no precise, scientific definition of what it means to think. But, as can be seen from the large volumes of writing on the subject since his initial essay, Turing’s operational test never fully satisfied all scientists and philosophers. Moreover, in the age of large language models, there is even disagreement as to whether current mo...
