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Is flat-pack furniture the ultimate test for robots?

Artificial Intelligence experts are devising a new way to test machine intelligence.

Prof Gary Marcus from 'Beyond the Turing Test Workshop' told ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Click's Spencer Kelly the Turing Championships would host a series of events to test different parts of what defines intelligence.

"We are trying to figure out a way of evaluating real progress towards artificial intelligence," said Prof Marcus, "not the kind of narrow progress where you build a computer programme that can do one thing," he added.

The tests could include requiring a machine to assemble flat-pack furniture from a diagram - and the required parts - or a completing a comprehension challenge, Prof Marcus explained.

Last year, computer chat program Eugene Goostman was said to have passed the Turing test, but some artificial intelligence experts disputed the victory.

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