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>As far as I'm concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina. Duping the j

>As far as I'm concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina. Duping the judge by pretending to be a young foreign non-native speaker in order to explain away various shortcomings was surely not the intent of the Turing test. By that standard the Turing test could have been passed in 1951 by a computer program that doesn't respond at all--just tell the judge the person he's corresponding with is in a coma.

robbomacrae 4y ago
"was surely not the intent of the Turing test" I agree but it is what it is. I think the Turing test has a few shortcomings in that regard. For one, I think it overestimated the awareness of the average evaluator by not stipulating any requirements for that role. I was just asking if we should drop that test as some sort of academic goal being aimed for by the likes of Google but perhaps that's not the point.. as others have mentioned, it will be profitable to fool evaluators so the incentive is there regardless.