There are moments that live on in business history.

One of them is the cry: "Mr Watson come here, I want to see you," spoken by Alexander Graham Bell back in 1876, in the world's first telephone conversation.

Another significant moment was the day in 1997 when the IBM computer called Deep Blue beat the then world champion Gary Kasparov at chess.

And then another IBM moment in 2011 when an even more intelligent computer called Watson -after the IBM founder Thomas Watson and his IBM chief executive son Thomas - won the TV game Jeopardy against human competition.

These last two IBM contests demonstrate - we're told - big advances in machine intelligence.

Foreigners have to take the most recent one on trust - Jeopardy is not a familiar game outside the USA, and how clever you have to be to win it is not understood globally.

Anyway, the Jeopardy win got the technology community excited that a threshold moment had been passed on the computing roadmap set out by the late British genius, Alan Turing.

His so-called Turing Test predicted that one day machines would be able to interact with human beings in a way that it would not be possible to tell whether the other party to the interaction was man or machine. At least on the screen.

Fonte : http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32588706

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