Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0007 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Turing Test
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The idea
The Turing test asks whether a machine, answering written questions, can be reliably told apart from a person by an interrogator who cannot see either one.
In practice
Two chat windows, five minutes, any questions you like — which one is the machine?
Where people slip
Turing's own prediction was modest: fooling an average questioner three times in ten, after five minutes, by the year 2000.
Your place on the trail
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