Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever

aykroyd writes "Students at Simon's Rock College conducted the original test that Turing suggested in his 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Often misunderstood, the Turing Test has never actually been conducted as laid out in his paper. The experiment utilized a program called A.L.I.C.E., which is designed to hold one end of an interactive conversation. The program was provided by the ALICE Artificial Intelligence Foundation. Dr. Richard Wallace, who was on hand during the experiment to troubleshoot the AI robot, later gave a lecture about it called "The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E." and also blogged the event."

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Shouldnt the sentence really read

[chadamir]

Often misunderstood, the Turing Test is really a metaphor for the inability to tell if someone is gay or not.

The Lying Game

[Anonymous Coward]

The women had to admit to being women, the men could not admit to being men.

In the computer's replication of man (and bound by the necessity of lying) it would be possible for the computer to say it was a man. So it would be possible to find the men, women and computer by asking two simple questions:

1)Are you a computer?
The women must say yes (they cannot lie)
The men must say no (they must always lie)
The computer must say yes (they must always lie)

the men are identified by having answered no. To seperate the women from computers, we follow up with

2) Are you a man?
The women must say no (they cannot lie)
The men must say no (they must always lie)
The computer must say yes (they must always lie)

Thusly,
Yes, No = Woman
No, No = Man
Yes, Yes = Computer

Unless of course the computer were perfectly trying to immitate man and saw itself as a man, in which case it would be implicity lying about its lying. Like George W Bush.