Turing Test Competition At CalTech

Charles Dodgeson writes "The Turing Tournament at Cal Tech wants to know if you can program an emulator that will play games like a human, or if can you write detector that can correctly sort the wetware from the software. Before you get too excited, the "games" are very limited things. But there is a $10,000 prize for the winner. You can read the gory details."

Comments

Re:perhaps not...

[dtgm01]

haha, I like Pinker. Having the support of a tower of feathers, ai work has fallen to the trenches With as much overhype as people have believed people are looking at it differently, this largely being the case of people who work in the field. Perhaps it is just not it's time yet to be introduced to the market Now, from the article...

The Turing tournament is a two sided tournament designed to find, on the one hand, the best computer programs to mimic human behavior, and on the other hand, the best computer programs to detect the difference between machine and human behavior. Two types of submissions will be accepted: an emulator, which mimics human behavior, or a detector, which detects the difference between human and machine behavior.

So, I suppose we could say by evaluating the success of response (as would be weeded out by whomever *actually* turns out an entry), we will have achieved our research, VOILA! It's a successful research incentive, the prize that is.

Whaddya think? no? heck of a fight though wasn't it? :P

OK I could be wrong, but,,,

[SuperCal]

Its been awhile sence I read about the subject, but isn't the Turing test just putting people in front of a terminal to talk to either a real person or a AI, and then asking which is the real person. When the same number of testers chose the AI as the real person, then the AI passes the test. Sence when did the Turing name apply to every AI competion? Am I wrong? This isn't a flame just a question about definitions...

Class of games defined; details at run time.

[Charles Dodgeson]

The class of games is extremely well defined. But the specific pay-off matrices will be input to the emulator. That is, an emulator will have to read the pay-off matrix and decide how to play it. Also note that many games of this nature will be played.

There is a good reason for this. If the game (or a small finite set of games) were pre-defined, it would be easy to have a bunch of human subjects play it and then have the emulator regurgitate such a "book". Most entries, I suspect, will be from people or teams who are familiar with studies of how real people do play such games.