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Turing Test Success

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Re: Turing Test Success

#6
> If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five minute keyboard conversations it passes the test. No computer has ever achieved this, until now. Eugene managed to convince 33% of the human judges that it was human.

Surely it depends on who the human judges are. It seems a bit unfair that the judges normally have IQ > 100 and the other humans have IQ > 100.

I strongly suspect that some simplistic AI (alicebots, for example) would beat the Turing test if the human judges had IQ between 90 and 105. (Especially if we're using the limited 30% rule above).

Getting bots running on some Facebook groups might be interesting.

Re: Turing Test Success

#7
Awesome job of putting un-followable links in the press release, Reading University.

I'm going to take this with a hug pinch of salt until I've read the transcripts, due to the involvement of famous publicity-hound Kevin Warwick.

Re: Turing Test Success

#8
post #5

Surly they did not talk to this one [1] - it is light-years away from being convincing. [1] http://www.princetonai.com/bot/

I was impressed it could write grammatically sound sentences, but it's not even close to human-level conversation...

Re: Turing Test Success

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post #8
post #5

Surly they did not talk to this one [1] - it is light-years away from being convincing. [1] http://www.princetonai.com/bot/

I was impressed it could write grammatically sound sentences, but it's not even close to human-level conversation...

I would be impressed if it didn't. If it made common mistakes a human would make, it would seem more human.

Re: Turing Test Success

#10
Lots of self-congratulation all round with no sample questions to provide the merest smidgeon of 'reason to believe that this is that significant'.
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