What is Turing test? Alan Turing introduced the 'Turing test' in his paper titled 'Computer Machinery and Intelligence...
What is Turing test?
Alan Turing introduced the 'Turing test' in his paper titled 'Computer Machinery and Intelligence'. The 'Turing Test' involves a human interrogator and tow contestants - a computer and a human. The interrogator converses with these contestants via computer terminals, without knowing the identity of the contestants. After a sufficiently long period of conversation, if the interrogator is unable to identify the computer the computer,then the computer is said to have passed 'Turing test' and must be considered intelligent. Turing is predicted that by 2000, computers would pass the test.
Did any computer pass the Turing Test?
Yes, A computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, is said to have passed the Turing test at an event organised by the University of Reading.
About Eugene Goostman
(From Wikipedia)Eugene Goostman is a chatterbot. Developed in Saint Petersburg in 2001 by a group of three programmers; the Russian-born Vladimir Veselov, Ukrainian-born Eugene Demchenko, and Russian-born Sergey Ulasen, Goostman is portrayed as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy—characteristics that are intended to induce forgiveness in those with whom it interacts for its grammatical errors and lack of general knowledge.
The Goostman bot has competed in a number of Turing test contests since its creation, and finished second in the 2005 and 2008 Loebner Prize contest. In June 2012, at an event marking what would have been the 100th birthday of the test's namesake, Alan Turing, Goostman won a competition promoted as the largest-ever Turing test contest, in which it successfully convinced 29% of its judges that it was human.
On 7 June 2014, at a contest marking the 60th anniversary of Turing's death, 33% of the event's judges thought that Goostman was human; the event's organiser Kevin Warwick considered it to have passed Turing's test as a result, per Turing's prediction in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, that by the year 2000, machines would be capable of fooling 30% of human judges after five minutes of questioning. The validity and relevance of the announcement of Goostman's pass was questioned by critics, who noted the exaggeration of the achievement by Warwick, the bot's use of personality quirks and humour in an attempt to misdirect users from its non-human tendencies and lack of real intelligence, along with "passes" achieved by other chatbots at similar events.
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