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Will artificial intelligence kill us all?

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Editor's note: Greg Scoblete is the technology editor of PDN Magazine. Follow him on @GregScoblete. The views expressed are his own. For more on the future of technology, watch the upcoming GPS "Moonshots" special on December 28 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET.

(CNN) -- Imagine you're the kind of person who worries about a future when robots become smart enough to threaten the very existence of the human race. For years you've been dismissed as a crackpot, consigned to the same category of people who see Elvis lurking in their waffles.

Greg Scoblete

In 2014, you found yourself in good company.

This year, arguably the world's greatest living scientific mind, Stephen Hawking, and its leading techno-industrialist, Elon Musk, voiced their fears about the potentially lethal rise of artificial intelligence (AI). They were joined by philosophers, physicists and computer scientists, all of whom spoke out about the serious risks posed by the development of greater-than-human machine intelligence.

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Why the Turing test is obsolete

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This was enough to pass the Turing Test, but not enough to convince a large contingent of industry watchers, many of whom claimed the limited life experience, vocabulary and sophistication of an adolescent boy from a foreign country had acted as a smokescreen to mask a wide range of flaws and weak points in the conversation.

Despite the Royal Society declaring Eugene's success an "important landmark", many are now calling for a more credible test of a machine's ability to reason as a human would. While Eugene was able to immitate natural language, it was only mimicking understanding it did not learn from the interaction, nor did it demonstrate problem solving skills.

A monitor shows a conversation between a human participant andEugene

One alternative, put forward by voice and language software provider Nuance Communications, is the Winograd Schema Challenge. Developed by Hector Levesque, professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to provide a more accurate measure of genuine machine intelligence.

Rather than basing the test on the sort of short free-form conversation suggested by the Turing Test, the Winograd Schema Challenge poses a set of multiple-choice questions that have a form where the answers are expected to be fairly obvious to a layperson, but ambiguous for a machine without human-like reasoning or intelligence.

For example, a Winograd Schema Challenge question might ask: The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big. What was too big? Answer 0: the trophy or Answer 1: the suitcase?

A human who answers these questions correctly typically uses his abilities in spatial reasoning, his knowledge about the typical sizes of objects, and other types of commonsense reasoning, to determine the correct answer.

"Where were going now is really to extract the meaning and the intent of what somebody said and put it into the context of the conversation, and then using things like anaphora to be able to have a conversation with somebody knowing that they are not always going to reference the subject," said John West, solutions architect for Nuance.

"Were starting to build those anaphora into systems right now, so what the Winograd Schema is looking at is the phrases and trying to add further intelligence to the understanding of that phrase."

West said that, most of the artificially intelligent systems in use today like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana are very domain-specific, so the expectation around what they are able to achieve is restricted to that domain.

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Is AI a threat to humanity?

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Editor's note: Greg Scoblete is the technology editor of PDN Magazine. Follow him on @GregScoblete. The views expressed are his own. For more on the future of technology, watch the upcoming GPS "Moonshots" special on December 28 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET.

(CNN) -- Imagine you're the kind of person who worries about a future when robots become smart enough to threaten the very existence of the human race. For years you've been dismissed as a crackpot, consigned to the same category of people who see Elvis lurking in their waffles.

Greg Scoblete

In 2014, you found yourself in good company.

This year, arguably the world's greatest living scientific mind, Stephen Hawking, and its leading techno-industrialist, Elon Musk, voiced their fears about the potentially lethal rise of artificial intelligence (AI). They were joined by philosophers, physicists and computer scientists, all of whom spoke out about the serious risks posed by the development of greater-than-human machine intelligence.

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Doom 3: BFG Edition – Level 05: Alpha Labs Sector 1: Union Aerospace Science Division – Video

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My playthrough of Level 05 (Alpha Labs Sector 1: Union Aerospace Science Division) of Doom 3: BFG Edition for the PC, played on the Veteran difficulty.

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Atheism, agnosticism and belief: Thoughts on going with or without God

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The Times' front-page article Monday on Ryan Bell, a former Seventh-day Adventist minister nearing the end of his "year without God," prompted dozens of readers to ruminate on religion, spirituality, atheism and agnosticism. The handful of letters published on Christmas Day some encouraging Bell to embrace a less black-and-white version of faith, others advocating for skepticism prompted more discussion among readers.

As with all conversations religious and with the faithful increasingly tailoring religion to suit their own sensibilities the one on Bell's crisis of faith remains ongoing, with letters still streaming in. The reader submissions below continue that discussion.

George Epstein of Los Angeles coins a universal "religion":

The letters responding to the article on Ryan Bell convince me that my concept regarding religion is right on.

Years ago, my then-12-year-old son asked me: "Dad, how do I know there is a God? I can't see him; I can't hear him; I can't touch him." At that moment my own long-term doubts came to mind. Then I realized that the concept of religion, including a God, was created by well-meaning people to help us live together in peace, harmony and justice for all. It's a good concept.

Today, when asked, I tell people, "My religion is conceptualism." As far as others, any form of religion is OK so long as it helps the believers achieve peace, harmony and justice for all. Obviously, with all the turmoil and killing in our world, these haven't been achieved all the more reason to pursue conceptualism.

Jim Johnson of Whittier finds little use for agnosticism:

Letter writer Judi Birnberg offers agnosticism as "the only tenable position," demonstrating how some people have not learned from logic how to recognize where the burden of proof properly resides.

This inability to distinguish an onus probandi from a hole in the ground (the fallacy known as the argumentum ad ignorantiam) should disqualify people from jury duty, where in criminal cases, they would mistakenly think that they had three voting options: guilty, not guilty and undecided.

And whereas science relies on the null hypothesis, those who advocate agnosticism would perhaps mistakenly think it necessary to spend millions of dollars proving that a potential new drug does not cure cancer. "Who can say with certainty that [God] does not exist?," asks Birnberg, when no such certainty is necessary.

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