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Variations On the Classic Turing Test

Posted by kdawson on from the climbing-out-of-the-uncanny-valley dept.

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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  1. Syntax by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    FORMALISTS' MOTTO: Take care of the syntax and the semantics will take care of itself.

    Also, if you are animating a dude, he is thinking about sex. If you are animating anyone else, they are thinking about shopping.

    Technically AI is not hard, you just need to lower your mind-mechanics bar and focus on trailer parks, and folk psychology.

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  2. Abstracting cognitive response is far off by postbigbang · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  3. We use turing tests on new hires at my job by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    We do interviews via IM and if the interviewee cannot convince two out of three of the interviewers they are not a bot, they don't make it to the second round.

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  4. Wonderful! by FatalTourist · · Score: 4, Funny

    The wife and I were looking for ways to spice up the ol' Turing Test.

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  5. Human-ness != Intelligence by Baldrson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why are people so interested in mimicing humans? Isn't intelligence far more interesting than human-ness?

    I understand people's fear of machine intelligence exceeding that of humans, but it is actually more dangerous to have machines merely mimicing human-ness than to have machines that are intelligent enough to actually understand what we say better than another human could.

    That means more than merely having some mockery of mirror neurons for "empathy". It means genuine understanding: The ability to model.

    The reason this is central to our relationship to our machines should be obvious: Friendly AI really boils down to the problem of effectively communicating our value systems to the AIs.

    That's why natural language comprehension is the first step to friendly AI.

    HENCE:

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