In computer science, the Turing Test is intended to tell if you can differentiate between who is human and who is a computer programmed to model human-like conversation in a text exchange between the two.
The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so the result would not depend on the machine’s ability to render words as speech.[2] If the evaluator cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. The test results do not depend on the ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely one’s answers resemble those a human would give
Now, someone has come up with a “Minimal Turing Test” which asks you to pick a single word that would prove you’re human and not a robot.
I was quite proud to pick the word that, more than any other, has been picked by other humans to show they’re living, thinking beings but Shea took a bit of the wind out of my sails when she said we’d discussed this previously and I’d forgotten about it.
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