Variations On the Classic Turing Test 82
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."
Chatbots (Score:2, Informative)
The best chatbots I've come across are at www.a-i.com
Not quite good enough to pass the turing test yet, but some are quite witty.
Re:Same test? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Abstracting cognitive response is far off (Score:3, Informative)
Personality and other heuristics are bound to occur. The tests, however, aren't really based on whether someone can play like Billy Joel or Chopin.
Turing was very aware of asking the right questions to get the right answers of a cognitive, self-aware entity. How that entity is abstracted as a physical entity is the mistake of the article. I can't play piano-- do I fail the test? Through what disciplines do we decide that there are cognitive components that establish a baseline of sentience and intelligence? Some of these, Turing tests for. Others are excellence (or not) in communications transports. That's my truck with the article.