Artificial Intelligence: Turing Test Evolution

Turing Test Evolution

• The newer, Total Turing Test includes physical contact in the form of perceptual ability interrogation, which requires computer vision and robotics to succeed.
• Modern techniques focus on achieving the goal, rather than mimicking humans completely.

Thinking Humanly

• Thinking humanly means a computer performs tasks that require intelligence, not just rote procedures, from a human.
• This requires determining how humans think, which cognitive modeling approaches define using three techniques:
  • Introspection: monitoring one's own thought processes.
  • Psychological testing: observing a person's behavior and adding it to a database.
  • Brain imaging: monitoring brain activity directly.

AI and Human Intelligence

• AI doesn't really have anything to do with human intelligence, but rather simulates it.
• AI relies on algorithms to achieve a result, which may or may not have anything to do with human goals or methods.
• AI can be categorized in four ways, one of which is acting humanly, which reflects the Turing test.

AI Categories

• Acting humanly: when a computer acts like a human, succeeding in the Turing test.
• This category includes technologies like natural language processing, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning.

Intelligence Process

• Intelligence often follows a process that a computer system can mimic:
  • Set a goal based on needs or wants.
  • Assess the value of currently known information.
  • Gather additional information.
  • Manipulate data to achieve a consistent form.
  • Define relationships and truth values between information.
  • Determine whether the goal is achieved.
  • Modify the goal based on new data.
  • Repeat the process until the goal is achieved.

Limitations of Computer Intelligence

• A computer's capability to achieve intelligence is severely limited.
• Computers rely on machine processes to manipulate data using pure math in a mechanical fashion.
• Computers cannot understand, separate truth from mistruth, or fully implement mental activities described in the intelligence process.

Explore the development of the Turing Test, including the Total Turing Test and modern approaches to achieving human-like intelligence in computers.