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Was the Turing Test ever about measuring intelligence? I always thought that it was about thought, i.e. the existence of conscience. The test was in essence a
by TuringTest 12y ago
Was the Turing Test ever about measuring intelligence? I always thought that it was about thought, i.e. the existence of conscience.
The test was in essence a call to empathy: a reminder that, if an entity was so complex so as to exhibit such behavior that we couldn't distinguish it from an educated fellow human, it would be impolite to treat it as "inhuman" or "a thing".
So why use it to measure intelligence, when other tests like I.Q. are designed specifically for that?
- codeulike 12y agoYeah the Wired article is altogether crap. It describes the Turing Test as being about 'imitating human conversation', missing the point entirely.
- TuringTest 12y agoWell, 'imitating human conversation' is what the published versions of the Test seem to be about. Unfortunately it seems the current state of the art has only devoted to imitate the superficial parts of it. I'm not aware of anyone trying to build SHRDLU-like model for conversation that tried to understand and remember what is being said, rather than merely reacting to it.
- sp332 12y agoIBM's Watson and the OpenCYC project are doing that. a Cycorp engineer informed the system they would be discussing anthrax. Cyc responded: "Do you mean Anthrax (the heavy metal band), anthrax (the bacterium), or anthrax (the disease)?" Asked to comment on the bacterium's toxicity to people, it replied: "I assume you mean people (homo sapiens). The following would not make sense: People Magazine." http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6_21_01.html http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6...