Observer C then has to discern if a change has been made, as well as who was changed and which player is now a machine. At some point, one of the players is replaced by a computer. In the diagram, A and B - both humans at the outset - carry on a text-based conversation (so as not to penalize the computer for not being able to accurately mimic human-sounding, vocalized speech). It also popularized the Turing Test in pop culture - also termed The Imitation Game, hence the film title - to a point where the greater public has at least an understanding of implications for said test.Īs described eloquently, if not completely accurately, in the movie, the Turing Test is a benchmark for adjudicating whether or not a machine system can imitate human communication patterns and verbalized thought processes in such a way it could fool a third-party, human observer into believing both participants in the conversation/experiment were humans, or to guess which participant was a machine incorrectly.Ī common diagram to show the parameters of the test: A slightly fictionalized version of this story made some serious Academy Award waves with Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role of Turing in Imitation Game.
His early Turing Machine - to many the first general purpose computer invented - cracked the Nazi Enigma cipher, which was one of the turning points in the Allies’ victory in WWII (it certainly turned the tide of the naval battle for the Atlantic).
What is the Turing Test and why does it matter?Īlan Turing is the father of modern computing. might just have beat the test with the whole world watching. The Turing Test is one of the more influential concepts in artificial intelligence it certainly defined how we think about machine learning achieving ‘artificial intelligence’ in the nascent stages of the field.
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