Variations On the Classic Turing Test

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."

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Abstracting cognitive response is far off

[postbigbang]

The Turing test is for apparent 'human' intelligence, where robotics adds communications via 'expressiveness'. These are two different vectors: rote intelligence and capacity to communicate (via body language, and the rest of linguistics/heuristics).

The article doesn't abstract the basic cognitive capacity because it entangles it with the communications medium. The Turing Test ought to be done in a confessional, where you don't get to see the device taking the test. It would also provide a feedback loop on the test as well.