Turing’s Flirt
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Turing’s Flirt
In 1950 Alan Turing described what became later known as the Turing Test. The Turing
Test, which is a test of one aspect of Artificial Intelligence, involved a
person sitting in front of a terminal exchanging in a typed conversation
with another party. If the person could not determine if the other party was
a person or a bit of software, then that software would have passed the
Turing Test.Of course almost everyone one the web has by now participated in a Reverse Turing Test where a computer tries to distinguish between a human and a computer (the T in CAPTCHA stands for Turing). But AI researchers over the years have failed to create software that can pass the standard Turning Test.
Who knew that the whole approach has been wrong? Instead of grad students and professors toiling away in major research institutions, the problem might instead be solved by Russian hackers looking to rip people off? If this doesn’t describe a piece of software that passes the Turing test, it’s closer than anything else I have heard of so far. Graft is apparent for more effective than research grants.
There are three things makes this really interesting. First, the environment (chat rooms) exactly matches the Teletype mechanism Turing first proposed. Second, the "test subjects" don’t actually know they are participating in a test. Ironically the software developers don’t either. Third, it’s illegal. So if the developers have actually cracked the Turning Test, they will never receive any recognition for it.
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In Turing Test Two, two players A and B are again being questioned by a human interrogator C. Before A gave out his answer (labeled as aa) to a question, he would also be required to guess how the other player B will answer the same question and this guess is labeled as ab. Similarly B will give her answer (labeled as bb) and her guess of A's answer, ba. The answers aa and ba will be grouped together as group a and similarly bb and ab will be grouped together as group b. The interrogator will be given first the answers as two separate groups and with only the group label (a and b) and without the individual labels (aa, ab, ba and bb). If C cannot tell correctly which of the aa and ba is from player A and which is from player B, B will get a score of one. If C cannot tell which of the bb and ab is from player B and which is from player A, A will get a score of one. All answers (with the individual labels) are then made available to all parties (A, B and C) and then the game continues. At the end of the game, the player who scored more is considered had won the game and is more "intelligent".
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