Jim Gray’s challenges
1.The
Turing test: win the impersonation game 30% of the time.
•Read and understand as well as a human.
•Think and write as well as a human.
2.Hear
and speak as well as a person: speech↔text.
3.See
and recognize as well as a person.
4.Remember
what is seen and heard; quickly return it on request.
5.Answer
questions about a text corpus as well as a human expert. Then add
sounds, images.
6.Be
somewhere else: observe (tele-past), interact (tele-present).
7.Devise
an architecture that scales up by 106.
8.Programming:
Given a specification, build a system that implements the spec. Do it better than a team of
programmers.
9.Build
a system used by millions, administered by ½ person.
•Prove it only services authorized users.
•Prove it is almost always available: (out < 1 second
/ 100 years)