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I didn't know the Turing Test was renamed to Alexa Prize

gavinpc 10y ago
If the Turing Test stipulated that the human were a politician, it would have been beaten many years ago. > You know, that's a very interesting point. I tend to agree with what you're saying, and I'd go one step further and say that we as a nation ought to be doing more about that. Ad nauseam. You could call it E-lies-a. /snark
- nicky0 10y ago
  I beleive this is a critical issue and one we should be having a broad national debate about.
Houshalter 10y ago
From their FAQ: >Will this competition be judged like a Turing Test? >No. The goal of the Alexa Prize is to create socialbots that engage in interesting, human-like conversations, not to make them indistinguishable from a human when compared side-by-side. While the socialbots built for the Alexa Prize will be human-like in some respects, they will be very different in others, and could easily reveal themselves in a Turing Test. For example, socialbots may have ready access to much more information than a human. Asking the socialbots to act human could diminish the customer experience and hinder the efforts of the participants to build the best socialbot to further conversational AI.
- taneq 10y ago
  Ooh, so they expect the bots to fail a Turing Test because they're superhuman? That makes it easier. /s
  - Houshalter 10y ago
    No they didn't say that. A socialbot should fail a Turing test because no human could Google an answer in 1 second or know the exact temperature, etc.
    - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
      A human plus a googlebot could do it though! Have the bot scan the incoming messages, provide possible facts related instantly. Then the human writes the response. The Turing test would say Robot but it would not be entirely right.
      - Houshalter 10y ago
        The point of the Turing test is for an AI to pretend to be human so well, humans can't tell if it's human or not. The bots in the Alexa Prize do not have to pretend to be human, and can be very different from humans. The point is just to make bots that are interesting or useful to talk to.

If the Turing Test stipulated that the human were a politician, it would have been beaten many years ago. > You know, that's a very interesting point. I tend to agree with what you're saying, and I'd go one step further and say that we as a nation ought to be doing more about that. Ad nauseam. You could call it E-lies-a. /snark

nicky0 10y ago
I beleive this is a critical issue and one we should be having a broad national debate about.

Houshalter 10y ago

From their FAQ: >Will this competition be judged like a Turing Test? >No. The goal of the Alexa Prize is to create socialbots that engage in interesting, human-like conversations, not to make them indistinguishable from a human when compared side-by-side. While the socialbots built for the Alexa Prize will be human-like in some respects, they will be very different in others, and could easily reveal themselves in a Turing Test. For example, socialbots may have ready access to much more information than a human. Asking the socialbots to act human could diminish the customer experience and hinder the efforts of the participants to build the best socialbot to further conversational AI.

taneq 10y ago
Ooh, so they expect the bots to fail a Turing Test because they're superhuman? That makes it easier. /s
- Houshalter 10y ago
  No they didn't say that. A socialbot should fail a Turing test because no human could Google an answer in 1 second or know the exact temperature, etc.
  - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
    A human plus a googlebot could do it though! Have the bot scan the incoming messages, provide possible facts related instantly. Then the human writes the response. The Turing test would say Robot but it would not be entirely right.
    - Houshalter 10y ago
      The point of the Turing test is for an AI to pretend to be human so well, humans can't tell if it's human or not. The bots in the Alexa Prize do not have to pretend to be human, and can be very different from humans. The point is just to make bots that are interesting or useful to talk to.