AI or Human? What is the Turing Test

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[Music] the Turing test has been developed by Alan Turing in 1950 it is meant as a means to identify true artificial intelligence the test is based on a process in which a series of judges attempt to discern interactions with a control human from interactions with the machine computer being tested it typically measures whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being Turing proposed that a computer can be set to possess artificial intelligence if it can mimic human responses under specific conditions it consists in a discussion between two humans and the computer during the test one of the humans see functions as the questioner while the second human be and the computer a function as respondents the questioner interrogate the respondents within a specific subject area using a specified format and context after a preset length of time or number of questions the questioner is then asked to decide which respondent was human and which was a computer the test is repeated many times if the questioner makes the correct determination in half of the test runs or less the computer is considered to have artificial intelligence because the questioner regards it as just as human as the human respondent to this day there are many variations of this test such as the reverse Turing test where a human tries to convince a computer that it is not a computer an example of this is a capture the Marcos test in which a program which can watch a television show is tested by being asked meaningful questions about the show's content the Lovelace test 2.0 which is a test made to detect a I through examining its ability to create out Winograd schema challenge which is a test that asks multiple-choice questions in a specific format there are always new and harder tests to evaluate the power of an artificial intelligence mainly because people find a way to pass these tests year after year and the end goal is to identify the most powerful a eyes the ones that act like us from the ones made for a specific test please leave a like if you learned something and subscribe to the channel to not miss any terms clearly explained [Music] [Music]