Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Old Questions
2. What is ‘Turing Test in AI? Criticize the performance of the ‘Turing Test’ to measure the intelligent of the machine.
Answer
AI is thinking...
The Turing test, proposed by Alan Turing was designed to convince the people that whether a particular machine can think or not. The test involves an interrogator who interacts with one human and one machine. Within a given time the interrogator has to find out which of the two the human is, and which one the machine.
To pass a Turing test, a computer must have following capabilities:
- Natural Language Processing: To communicate easily.
- Knowledge Representation: To store facts and rules.
- Automated Reasoning: To draw conclusion from stored knowledge.
- Machine Learning: To adopt new circumstances and detect pattern.
Additional requirements for the “total Turing test”: computer vision, speech recognition, speech synthesis, robotics.
Critics of Turing test:
• Test is not reproducible, amenable or constructive to mathematical analysis as it is more important to study the underlined principles of intelligence than to duplicate example.
• Trying to evaluate machine intelligence in terms of human intelligence is fundamental mistake. It focuses too much on the behavior of conversation.