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Turing test

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Turing test a procedure to test whether a computer is capable of humanlike thought. As proposed (1950) by the British mathematician Alan Turing , a person (the interrogator) sits with a teletype machine isolated from two correspondents—one is another person, one is a computer. By asking questions through the teletype and studying the responses, the interrogator tries to determine which correspondent is human and which is the computer. The computer is programmed to give deceptive answers, e.g., when asked to add two numbers together, the computer pauses slightly before giving the... Read more
Turing test
A Dictionary of Psychology Turing test n. A hypothetical test or Gedankenexperiment ... simulates human responses. Turing argued that if the remaining human being is free to ask probing questions ... computer has passed the test. Turing considered the question ... and argued that his test, which replaces ... Read more
Turing, Alan
Mathematics ... intelligence today. Turing also proposed a test to measure whether a ... The widely acclaimed "Turing test" involved a connecting ... computed arithmetically). Turing helped construct decoders ... that could more rapidly test key codes until correct ... Read more

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A Turing test of bootstrap scenarios.
Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics; 12/1/2002; Demirel, Omer F. Willemain, Thomas R.; 787 words ; ... zero crossing counts. To test whether this way of setting ... scenarios, we performed two Turing tests. These visualization ... realistic, one can perform a Turing test (Turing 1950). If one cannot ... bootstrap samples pass the Turing test and we have an effective ... Read more
Will AI ever pass the Turing Test?
InTech; 9/1/2006; Anonymous; 375 words ; ... chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, no machine has yet come close to passing the Turing Test-the conversational test devised by mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 to determine whether a machine could "think." However, Bostrom said traditional ... Read more
Letter: Turing and the artificial mind
The Independent - London; 5/15/1997; JEFF GOLDBERG; 200 words ; ... 13 May), like so many others, has overrated the Turing test. The Turing test is not some goal or benchmark artificial intelligence ... why not extend that to something that passes the Turing test? Beyond that role the test is not important. If ... Read more
Outsmarting Turing.(information technology)
Futures; 9/1/2003; Ravetz, J.R.; 787 words ; ... depends on your point of view. For some, IT consists of lots of Turing machines that get bigger and smarter all the time. It is then reasonable to suppose that one day they will pass a Turing test, and at that point will say, OK you guys, we're running things ... who are in this class. Indeed, any ... Read more
Net defenses may be in danger: As computers get better at text tests, Web sites need new ideas.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX); 6/22/2006; 787 words ; ... some small problems. test That's why a very simple test has protected some of ... replacements for the test, knowing that computers ... The distorted-letter test is getting to the point ... Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Turing refers to ... Read more
As computers get better at text tests, new Web site defenses are sought.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX); 6/22/2006; 787 words ; ... That's why a very simple test has protected some of ... replacements for the test, knowing that computers ... The distorted-letter test is getting to the point ... Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Turing refers to Alan Turing ... proposed a ... Read more
Internet sites work on successors to distorted-letter test.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX); 6/27/2006; 787 words ; ... That's why a very simple test has protected some of ... replacements for the test, knowing that computers ... The distorted-letter test is getting to the point ... Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Turing refers to Alan Turing ... proposed a ... Read more
Readers weigh in on how to conduct meter tests; They want fair, comprehensive monitoring when ramp signals are turned off by state.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/8/2000; Blake, Laurie; 787 words ; ... will be turned off during a test period in September or October ... last week's column about the test, readers wrote to say that ... drivers are not involved in the test, Baker worries that department ... put their own spin on the test results. Last week, Gary Workman ... about measuring the effects of ... Read more
Digital Deception; With a test, Web sites let people in and keep out computers set to unleash spam attacks. Now, computers are cracking the code.
The Washington Post; 5/1/2008; Peter Whoriskey - Washington Post Staff Writer; 787 words ; ... In a landmark paper in 1950, British mathematician Alan Turing proposed that a machine could be said to "think" if it could ... They dubbed the tests CAPTCHAs, an acronym with a nod to Turing: "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart." Yahoo's initial system ... Read more
First base; Computing.(Test-tube computing takes the next step)
The Economist (US); 5/1/2004; 561 words ; ... What the team have built is known as a Turing machine, a notional type of computer first proposed in 1936 by Alan Turing. This British mathematician imagined a ... only works in a watery solution inside a test tube. One worry about taking such work ... unpredictable than the controlled environment of a ... Read more

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