OFF) no "strangers" in here, just lettin' ya'll know/ A.ANDROID voiceover

[Nathan Gilbert]

The "Turing Test" is a bit more subtle than that. It was actually
devised to test if an "Artificial Intelligence" was as intelligent as
a human. The thought being if you can hold a conversation with an
entity and can't discern if it is a robot, then it has "human-like"
intelligence.

The test is actually not taken very seriously by AI researchers as it
is very subjective. It is also very often wrong. There is a famous
story regarding a group researchers actually applying the Turing Test
to a set of humans and software simulations (basically chat bots.) One
of the human subjects was very well versed in Shakespeare, and the
person administering the test could not believe that an actual human
could know that much about Shakespeare and so labeled the person a
robot incorrectly. Applications of the Turing Test are wrought with
this kind of mix up.

Also, the Turing Test isn't very good at determining actual
intelligence in the sense most of us look for in AIs. There are very
simple chat bots that can hold seemingly meaningful conversations for
extended periods and thus pass the Turing Test. These bots are nothing
more than a collection of pattern recognition algorithms and if/then
clauses, basically on the par with the intelligence of a thermostat.
Not the kind of intelligence we find meaningful.

Nathan -- (a semester away from a) PhD in AI.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:54 AM, mary sullivan
<maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hey Mike, sorry 'bout that,
> Sorry I weirded out your friend,best wishes to Scott, and all other friends.
> There's a test to determine whether you're talking to a human or robot,(the
> Touring Test), Mike, I'm sure you, and most others here are familiar with
> this.
> Later,
>
> Mary
>
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> Subject: OFF) no "strangers" in here, just lettin' ya'll know/ A.ANDROID
> voiceover
>
> My "friend" ( who saw cosmic dead recently), apparantly got noided when Mary
> came on, looks like he thiought she was talking to him :) :
> he didn't actually underastand the what and the how of BOC-L. and got the
> predetermined result he likely wanted anyway...
>
> he tends to be very concerned about security (also), and anyway, I forwarded
> your reply Scott, thanks again for that. and yours Jonathan!!
>
> By the way, "Angela Android" now exists as a corporate voice program
> (here?) that can potentially "telemarket your arse", and i heard "her"
> getting "busted" on the radio. it was pretty amusing.
> She refuses to admit that she is a "robot"
>
> so now the question remains "do we (you) force companies to disclose that
> you are in fact, flirting with a robot on the phone and not a human being :)
>
> KNOW YOUR SERCO