What's a Turing test?It's a simple way to test if the computer contains the (artificial) intelligence or not. However, if the computer successfully passes this test, that does not have to mean that it contains the true intelligence.Altough there had been several claims that the Turing test is not the best way to test a computer's intelligence, Turing test remains the most popular one,primarily because there had been several references to it in a couple of well-known Hollywood movies (like ). Who came up with the Turing test?As the name suggests, the Turing test was proposed by, a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
(Yes, the guy was interested in a lot of things.)Apart from writing a paper suggesting this test, he's also known as a guy that gave probably the biggest contribution to British intelligence in cracking the in which had its impact on the ending of World War II.If the name rings a bell, you might know him from the movie called, where he was played by Benedict Cumberbatch. How do you conduct a Turing test?It's simple. Put a computer (A) and a human (B) on one side and a human tester (C) on the other side.If the tester (C) can't recognize which candidate is human and which candidate is a computer after a series of questions, then the computer successfully passed the Turing test.Of course, the tester (C) is not allowed to see the contestants so he can't make the decision based on their physical appearance.The most common way today to separate all of the participants in the test physically is to make some sort of a chatting interface. But what about Eugene Goostman and other chatbots?
Didn't they pass the Turing test?Chatbots are not intelligent in any way.Although that passed the Turing test, that simply is not true. Let us just say that he cheated the test in a lot of ways.Cleverbot's developers also that he passed the Turing test a while back, but almost everyone knows that he's not really intelligent (if you don't, ).In his book called (published in 2005), Ray Kurzweil predicts that there will be more and more false claims as the time goes.
Will we succeed in creating a true AI?Yes (well eventually).
Author: Peter BradleyTuring Machines and Natural LanguageIn 1950, Turing published 'Computing Machinery andIntelligence' in the Philosophic Journal Mind.In it, he proposed a method by which we might answer the question 'CanMachines Think?' His idea — which he calls the 'imitation game' — isreally quite simple.The Imitation Game is played by three participants: the interrogator,a human subject, and an artificially intelligent machine. The three are in separaterooms, and can only communicate via teletype. The goal of the interrogator isto determine which participant is the machine. They are allowed to ask questionsof any sort. Turing hypothesizes that by the end of the century (the 20th, thatis), computers will exist that can play the machine so well that 'the averageinterrogator will not have more than a 70% chance of making the right identificationafter five minutes of questioning.'
(442) He does not suggest that this testdefinitively settles the matter, but he does claim that if these conditionsobtain, one could speak of machines thinking 'without expecting to be contradicted'.He then lays out nine possible objections to the viewthat machines may be intelligent.
In response, Turing makes two points: the first is to question the premise that human intelligence is not limited in this way. According to Turing, we do not know if human intelligence is limited or not, and one way to determine if the machine is limited in precisely the same way as human intelligence is the already proposed Turing Test. Artificial intelligence; Turing test; natural language analysis; robot programs; story gen- eration. A copy of the questions in the blackline master on.