Questions tagged [turing-test]
For questions about the Turing Test, a test designed to see whether a third-party person can identify, from a written transcript, who was the AI and who was the human is an human/AI conversation.
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Is this a better formulation of the Turing test?
Would the Turing test be better formulated by assessing whether the creator (as opposed to a third party) was able to tell the difference between their program and a human?
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Problem with the Turing Test as Performed
Could anyone explain this problem I have with the Turing test as performed? Turing (1950) in describing the test says the computer takes the part of the man then plays the game as when played between ...
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Are there standardized forms of the Turing Test?
Most computer science instructors will tell you that the Turing Test is more a theoretical or conceptual thought experiment than an actual exam that someone (or something!) can formally sit and ...
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Current extensions of the "Turing Test"?
In 2014 it was widely reported that the Turing Test had been passed, and that this was a major AI milestone.
See: Computer AI passes Turing test in 'world first [BBC]; Turing Test Success Marks ...
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What is the reverse of passing a Turing test by a human pretending to be a robot that can't be identified?
A Turing Test is a method of inquiry for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being. In an ideal Turing test, it would be clear to differentiate between a real ...
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Based on the Turing test, what would be the criteria for an agent to be considered smart?
Based on the Turing test, what would be the criteria for an agent to be considered smart?
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What is the Turing test?
I'm looking for intuition in simple words but also some simple insights (I don't know if the latter is possible). Can anybody shed some light on the Turing test?
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What are the implications of the statement "If you can't tell, does it matter?" in relation to AI?
"If you can't tell, does it matter?" was one of the first lines of dialogue of the Westworld television series, presented as a throwaway in the first episode of the first season, in response ...
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Nuances of Turing test requirements
My understanding is that there is no singular "The Turing Test Ruleset" and competitions don't all do it the exact same way. Still, I'm wondering about some commonly accepted rules and their nuances. ...
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Would you term Google's Captchas as Turing Test?
Quoting from Wikipedia page on Turing Test
The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable ...
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Is the Turing test still relevant, as of 2019?
Given the Chinese room argument, and given the development in chatbots and machine learning, isn't Turing test superseded by some other way of evaluating AI's inteligence? Would an positive result of ...
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Is "AIAngel" (Patreon) a fake?
These guys here: https://www.patreon.com/AiAngel are saying that they've created a AI who can chat and stream. As the so-called administrator "Rogue" said:
this chat/streamer bot are no fake.
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Can a brain be intelligent without a body? [duplicate]
The dialog context
Turing proposed at the end of the description of his famous test, "Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is ...
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If the Turing test is passed, does this imply that computers exhibit intelligence?
Turing test was created to test machines exhibiting behavior equivalent or indistinguishable from that of a human. Is that the sufficient condition of intelligence?
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Can machine learning be used to pass the Turing test?
Can we say that the Turing test aims to develop machines or methods to reach human-level performance in all cognitive tasks and that machine learning is one of these methods that can pass the Turing ...
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Did Turing foresee the required capabilities to pass the Turing test?
In Section 1.1 of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, it is stated that a computer which passes the Turing Test would need 4 capabilities, and that these 4 capabilities comprise most of the ...
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Is the Turing Test a blinded experiment?
Did Alan Turing expect the AIs to be aware they were being Turing tested while the game was being played?
I think it's slightly harder to look like a duck while pretending to be a duck than when you ...
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Is the play of strong Chess AI easily distinguishable from human play?
I don't play nearly enough Chess to be able to answer. For context, AlphaGo is stronger than the current strongest human player, but AlphaGo's game play has been cast as "inhuman" in the sense that ...
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Why spend so much time and money to build AIs to play games?
I was reading about John McCarthy and his orthodox vision of Artificial Intelligence. To me, it seems like he was not very much in favour of resources (like time and money) being used to make AIs play ...
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Recent work on “Oracular” systems such as Eliza?
I know Eliza is considered a Natural Language Processing application, but the application of NLP in this context is “Oracular”.
What I mean by Oracular is that the systems was designed to produce ...
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Why is the Turing test so popular?
I know there are different AI tests but I'm wondering why other tests are little-known. Is the Turing test hyped? Are there any scientific reasons to prefer one test to the other?
Why is the Turing ...
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How close have we come to passing the Turing Test?
The Turing Test has been the classic test of artificial intelligence for a while now. The concept is deceptively simple - to trick a human into thinking it is another human on the other end of a ...
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How do we test if an model or algorithm is AI-complete?
How do we test if a model or algorithm is AI-complete?
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Why was ELIZA able to induce "delusional thinking"?
From Eliza to A.L.I.C.E.:
Weizenbaum tells us that he was shocked by the experience of releasing ELIZA (also known as "Doctor") to the nontechnical staff at the MIT AI Lab. Secretaries and ...
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Given enough computational resources, do we currently have any algorithms which could achieve AI?
Hypothetically, assume that you have access to infinite computing power. Do we have designs for any brute-force algorithms that can find an AI capable of passing traditional tests (e.g. Turing, ...
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Have any chatbots fooled the judges and won the Loebner Prize Gold medal yet?
I've read about The Loebner Prize for AI, which pledged a Grand Prize of $100,000 and a Gold Medal for the first computer whose responses were indistinguishable from a human's.
So I was wondering ...
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Are there any AI that have passed the MIST test so far?
MIST is a quantiative test of humanness, consisting of ~80k propositions such as:
Is Earth a planet?
Is the sun bigger than my foot?
Do people sometimes lie?
etc.
Have any AI attempted and passed ...
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What was the first machine that was able to carry on a conversation?
What was the first AI that was able to carry on a conversation, with real responses, such as in the famous 'I am not a robot. I am a unicorn' case?
A 'real response' constitutes a sort-of ...
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What are the specific requirements of the Turing test?
What are the specific requirements of the Turing test?
What requirements if any must the evaluator fulfill in order to be qualified to give the test?
Must there always be two participants in the ...
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How could emotional intelligence be implemented?
I've seen emotional intelligence defined as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
What are some ...
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Is the Turing Test, or any of its variants, a reliable test of artificial intelligence?
The Turing Test was the first test of artificial intelligence and is now a bit outdated. The Total Turing Test aims to be a more modern test which requires a much more sophisticated system. What ...
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