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Turing Test in Artificial Intelligence

Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing was an
English mathematician,
computer scientist,logician,
cryptanalyst,philosopher, and
theoretical biologist.
He is widelyconsideredto be
the father of theoretical
computer scienceand Artificial
Intelligence.
AlanMathison TuringOBE FRS
23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954

The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game
Imaginewehave a man(A), a woman(B), anda neutral interrogator(C).
Thegoalof the gameisfor C — the interrogator— to discoverwho is the male (A)
andwhois thefemale (B).
Thegoalof A, in this case,is to makethe interrogatorfail,that is, fool him into
thinkingthat he isthe female.
An Interrogatorhasa conversationthroughthe aforementionedmethod (screen
andkeyboard)with a certainentity, which caneitherbe a human or a machine.
Even afterthis conversationthe interrogatoris not able to tell if the entity it was
interactingwithis amachineor ahuman.

Evolution of The Turing Test
The Turingtest basically approvesthe capabilitiesof a machineto think if
this machinecanbe undistinguishedfrom humans ina typed conversationfor
more thanone thirdof the times that the test isperformed.
The test only evaluatestextual communicationcapabilities, comprehension,
andexpression.
The test result does not depend on each correctanswer,but only how closely
itsresponses like a human answer.The computer is permittedto do
everything possible to force a wrongidentificationby the interrogator.
If an interrogatorwould not be able to identifywhich is a machineandwhich
ishuman, then the computer passes the test successfully.

Features required for a machine to pass the Turing test
Natural language processing
Knowledge representation
Automatic Reasoning
Machine learning
Vision (For total Turing test)
Motor Control (For total Turing test)