turing test

Can you tell the difference between poetry written by a human and poetry generated by a computer? Bot or Not is a Turing test for poetry; take the quiz to see if you can guess the provenance of each poem. It turns out that some of those bots aren’t half-bad poets. [via Nerdcore]

What It’s Like to Judge the Turing Test

“What are your favourite Sci Fi movies?” “I like Star Wars and The Matrix,” comes the typed reply. I am trying to work out if I’m talking to a “hidden human” in the next room, or actually a machine located somewhere in cyberspace. “Can we agree that the prequels sucked?” I continue. “Absolutely! Lucas should…

Remembering Alan Turing

This Saturday, June 23rd, would have marked the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. A visionary mathematician, logician and codebreaker, Turing was a pioneer in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. A linchpin member of Ultra, Britain’s World War II counterintelligence team, Turing created the electro-mechanical, code-decrypting “bombe” that deciphered countless intercepted Nazi communications.…

10 Tricks That Chatbots Use to Make You Believe They’re Human

Chatbots can convince you of remarkable things — like the necessity of clicking a link or giving away your credit card number. Mostly, though, they just want to make you believe that they’re real breathing humans. And the creators of chatbot programs work hard to compensate for their lack of soul or independent will. Here…

How to use the Turing Test to play pranks on unwitting humans

Jerker Westin and colleagues at the Department of Culture, Media and Computer Science, Högskolan Dalarna, Borlänge, Sweden, have, between them, developed a new variant of the now-famous Turing Test. The Turing Test was the first experimental procedure devised to try to determine whether an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine can, in fact, “think”. The new version…

Meet Suzette, the chat program that convinced an expert she was human

Have you met Suzette? If you have, you might not know it — because Suzette has passed the Turing Test. This chatbot convinced a judge that she was a human. The Loebner Prize is given out every year for the machine that can fool a judge they’re talking to a person for the space of…

First-Person Shooters Get Their Own Turing Test

In a twist on the traditional Turing Test, BotPrize asked contestants to program a bot that could play Unreal Tournament 2004 with all the imperfections and trash talk of a real player. See if you can tell human from bot. In a similar to the traditional Turing Test, BotPrize judges watched game play of a…

Loebner Winner Doesn’t Believe Turing Test is Proof of AI

Elbot is a droid with a sarcastic edge — it points out that it’s a machine even as it tries to convince you it’s human. And yesterday it proved somewhat successful, fooling three out of 12 judges during the University of Reading’s Turing Test and taking home the Loebner Artificial Intelligence bronze medal. But does…

Computer Nearly Passes Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is called the Turing Test, after mathematician Alan Turing, and Sunday’s saw six Artificial Conversational Entities (ACEs) trying to ace the exam.…

Punk Rock Robots Rock Out to Punk Rock ONLY

Making robots even more hardcore, British roboticists have designed machines that will only dance to punk rock music. Standing 2 meters tall, padded in leather and decked in various punk scene insignias, the pogoing robots wait until they hear the familiar strains of anti-establishment rock before they start dancing. Is it just me, or do…

Spambots Can Now Fool Yahoo CAPTCHA Tests: Yes, Worry

You know those anti-spam tests that make you enter funny characters to prove you’re a human? Well, non-humans can finally fake their way into systems using the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” too—even Yahoo’s pretty secure system, according to new reports. https://gizmodo.com/anti-spam-turing-test-is-really-global-human-powered-oc-306034 A Russian security researcher known only as…

Anti-Spam Turing Test Is Really Global Human-Powered OCR System

You know the test you have to take on Digg or Facebook, the one that proves you’re a human? You see a hard-to-read word or string of gibberish, and you type in the correct characters. Carnegie Mellon researchers decided to replace randomly generated words with actual words from ancient manuscripts, words that machines are having…