Thus, those devising AI are welcome to use Lego’s and duct tape if that will do the job to achieve the equivalence of human intelligence. Note that the AI does not necessarily have to be crafted in the same manner as humans, and thus there is no requirement that the AI has a brain or uses neurons and such. Turing originally coined this the “imitation game” since it involves the AI trying to imitate the intelligence of humans. Simply stated, if the moderator is unable to distinguish between the two contestants as to which is the human and which is the computer, presumably the computer has sufficiently “proven” that it is the equivalent of human intelligence. The testing process is entirely about intellectual acumen.Ī moderator serves as an interrogator (also referred to as a “judge” because of the designated deciding role in this matter) and proceeds to ask questions of the two participants that are hidden behind the curtains.īased on the answers provided to the questions, the moderator will attempt to indicate which curtain hides the human and which curtain hides the computer. No arm wrestling is involved, and nor any other physical acts. Some prefer to call them “subjects” rather than contestants, due to the notion that this is perhaps more of an experiment than it is a game show, but the point is that they are “participants” in a form of challenge or contest involving wits and intelligence. The human and the computer are considered contestants in a contest that will be used to try and figure out whether AI has been reached. Imagine that we had a human hidden behind a curtain, and a computer hidden behind a second curtain, such that you could not by sight alone discern what or who is residing behind the two curtains. Here’s a quick rundown about the nature of the Turing Test.
Parsimoniously, the Turing Test is relatively easy to describe and indubitably straightforward to envision (for my deeper analysis on this, see the link here).
Those within the AI field have tended to consider a type of test known as the Turing Test to be the gold standard for seeking to certify AI as being the venerated AI or semantically the AGI.Īs named after its author, Alan Turing, the well-known mathematician and early pioneer in the computer sciences, the Turing Test was devised in 1950 and remains pertinent still today (here’s a link to the original paper). No, just taking someone’s word for AI having been accomplished or simply kicking the tires of the AI to feebly gauge its merits is insufficient and inarguably will not do.
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