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The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence", it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. In order to keep the test setting simple and universal (to explicitly test the linguistic capability of the machine instead of its ability to render words into audio), the conversation is usually limited to a text-only channel such as a teletype machine as Turing suggested or, more recently IRC or instant messaging.
History
The test was inspired by a party game known as the "Imitation Game", in which a man and a woman go into separate rooms, and guests try to tell them apart by writing a series of questions and reading the typewritten answers sent back. In this game, both the man and the woman aim to convince the guests that they are the woman. Turing proposed a test employing the imitation game as follows: "We now ask the question, 'What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?' Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, 'Can machines think?'" (Turing 1950) Later in the paper he suggested an "equivalent" alternate formulation involving a judge conversing only with a computer and a man.
Turing originally proposed the test in order to replace the emotionally charged and (for him) meaningless question "Can machines think?" with a more well-defined one. The advantage of the new question, he said, was that it "drew a fairly sharp line between the physical and intellectual capacities of a man." (Turing 1950)
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Also, Dear Trader Joe's: I like my bread dead. I keep buying yours and then finding mold that can pass a Turing test. Kthx, Friar
deepfriar (Gordon Arsenoff) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:58:59 -0000
Also, Dear Trader Joe's: I like my bread dead. I keep buying yours and then finding mold that can pass a Turing test. Kthx, Friar
Prefer to take the Turing test. I've been studying. ReplytoDM: @jesterdave uses TrueTwit validation service.
wtk1 (W Thomas Koch) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:24:23 -0000
Prefer to take the Turing test. I've been studying. ReplytoDM: @jesterdave uses TrueTwit validation service.
Turing's Test, the Loebner Prize and Chatterbots - Can a computer think?http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/475-turings-test.html
Iprogrammerinfo (I Programmer) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:51:14 -0000
Turing's Test, the Loebner Prize and Chatterbots - Can a computer think?http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/475-turings-test.html
Is there a Voight-Kampf or Turing Test for celebrity screenwriters?
tomatosquid (tomatosquid) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:05:29 -0000
Is there a Voight-Kampf or Turing Test for celebrity screenwriters?
Twitter needs a Turing test for bot accounts.
ianmrountree (Ian M Rountree) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:31:00 -0000
Twitter needs a Turing test for bot accounts.
@jessespector Unwitting participants in a Turing Test?
harrypav (Harry Pavlidis) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:13:54 -0000
@jessespector Unwitting participants in a Turing Test?
Article in ACM Crossroads Magazine - Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine, this is an article arguing that the Turing Test is not a good test for intelligence.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Turing's original 1950 article on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing Test, and started this profound multi-decade debate.
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Loebner Prize Home Page - Annual Turing Test contest.
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The Blurring Test - An inversion of the Turing Test which requires users to prove to a chatbot that they are human. Also features background information and conversation samples.
The Turing Test - Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The Turing Test and Chinese Room Experiment - A nice, concise page by Larry Hauser describing the Turing Test and Searle's Chinese Room.
Turing Machines and Universes - Essay exploring Turing Machine theory from quantum mechanical and universal perspectives.
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Turing Test Page - Comprehensive list of online resources pertaining to all aspects of the Turing test, including background reading and chatbot links.
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Turing Test Questions - An attempt to collect the largest possible number of one-line questions that could be asked during a Turing Test.
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