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I hate it when people criticize the Turing test as imprecise or unproductive. While it may be not be an important benchmark in serious AI research, it's been i

I hate it when people criticize the Turing test as imprecise or unproductive. While it may be not be an important benchmark in serious AI research, it's been incredibly thought provoking and inspiring for over half a century. Many great scientists give us value beyond their publications in journals, essays, and dreams that help to put the bigger picture into perspective. Also I'm glad the movie came out so it's easier to explain to my family about one of my personal heros.

slacka 12y ago
Turing is also one of my heroes too, but that doesn't mean I have to worship every idea of his. As you pointed out the problem with the Turing Test is that IS as imprecise or unproductive. This would be fine if decades of serious AI research and millions of dollars hadn't be wasted trying to fool humans with these stupid psychological tricks. I know first hand as I took an "AI" course at my University centered around their home grown chatbot. And it's not just my school, here's a list of 400 research papers dedicated to the topic.[1] As the article points out Turing's idea that was never fully flushed out. It's nothing more than a distraction for researchers and a silly parlor trick for everyone else. Stong AI is never going to come by tricking the interviewer that you're a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy.[2] It's going to come by a fundamental understanding of the nature of intelligence. [1] https://www.chatbots.org/papers/ https://www.chatbots.org/papers/ [2] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-computer-beat-the-turing-test-by-pretending-to-be-a-13-year-old-boy http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-computer-beat-the-tur...