US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests

Massively points out an article about new research projects for the US Army. One of the projects will evidently involve testing their AI capabilities in popular MMOs, including World of Warcraft and EVE Online. "They're working on creating 'photorealistic looking and acting human beings' that can think on their own, have emotions and talk in local slang. 'I actually interact with virtual humans in terms of asking them questions and they're responding,' Parmentola said. To test out the computer generated humans' 'humanity,' Parmentola and his researchers want to unleash some of their cyber Soldiers into so-called 'massively multi-player online games' such as World of Warcraft or Eve Online — games frequented by thousands of super-competitive human players in teams of virtual characters fighting battles that can last for days. 'We want to use the massively multi-player online game as an experimental laboratory to see if they're good enough to convince humans that they're actually human,' he said."

Comments

Intelligence ?

[Davemania]

You don't need intelligence let alone artificial intelligence to interact with people in those MMO games

Re:"military intelligence" oxymoron still works...

[mwvdlee]

MMO's are the most automated of games. They don't involve thought, they involve grinding, grinding, and more grinding.

So what you're saying is, MMO's are the perfect way to train virtual soldier AI.