By Genevieve Bell, BBC
Of course, we have just survived 2011 without such a cataclysmic event. And the closest we got to computers achieving self-awareness was Apple’s Siri. It doesn’t promise self-awareness per se, but does promise to listen and to learn – and hopefully not systematically destroy us. It seems likely that in 2012 a computer will pass the Turing Test – which might get us closer to a digital machine with true artificial intelligence (AI). The irony is that most of us will not care.
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