The problem with misapplication of the
Turing test in this way has been exacerbated by the publicity around a purported case of a chatbot in June 2014 becoming "the first machine to pass the
Turing test" (The Guardian 2014), when of course no such feat took place (Shieber 2014a).
The apparent absence of any need for entities online to pass a
Turing test is perhaps indicative of a diminution of social investment in legitimacy predicated on humanist ideals, human subjectivity, notions of the 'authentic' self, or 'real' contact, whatever such terms were originally intended to designate.
After having been introduced to such a seemingly soulful machine, readers become eager for the results of the
Turing test between the graduate student and the machine.
The
Turing test has been updated many times, so it is not unrealistic that the test in Ex Machina should be different from the original.
In other words, if the chatbots contextualized in adaptations of the
Turing Test or in MUDs pass as human, animated chatbots, as virtual receptionists or technical demos, do not attempt to pass.
It was after he read Brian Christian's book The Most Human Human--about the
Turing test, an exercise in which the same question is posed to a human and a computer, and a third party decides which answer came from the machine--that Harrison took a stab at writing a two-hander between himself and a computer chat program, though he quickly learned technology isn't quite that sophisticated.
I was reminded of all this by the recent nonsense about a computer passing the
Turing test.
com)-- Zabaware's bot Ultra Hal was one of 5 artificially intelligent bots that participated in last weekend's
Turing Test hosted by Reading University at the Royal Society in London.
Young Eugene has just reportedly become the first ever program to pass the
Turing Test which terms it'd seem impolite to call him an it) believed they were talking to a human being.
The machine beat the so-called
Turing Test, named after Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing.
A computer at London's Royal Society fooled a panel of humans into thinking it was human in an experiment that is being hailed as the first example of a machine passing the
Turing Test, the Guardian reported today.
The invited papers discuss integrating planning and reasoning into an architecture that enables model-driven development, and the challenges of social robotics from the
Turing test to science fiction.
