Paper Info
Title
Testing Turing's five minutes, parallel-paired imitation game
Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to consider Turing's two tests for machine intelligence: the parallel-paired, three-participants game presented in his 1950 paper, and the "jury-service" one-to-one measure described two years later in a radio broadcast. Both versions were instantiated in practical Turing tests during the 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence hosted at the University of Reading, UK, in October 2008. This involved jury-service tests in the preliminary phase and parallel-paired in the final phase. Design/methodology/approach - Almost 100 test results from the final have been evaluated and this paper reports some intriguing nuances which arose as a result of the unique contest. Findings - In the 2008 competition, Turing's 30 per cent pass rate is not achieved by any machine in the parallel-paired tests but Turing's modified prediction: "at least in a hundred years time" is remembered. Originality/value - The paper presents actual responses from "modern Elizas" to human interrogators during contest dialogues that show considerable improvement in artificial conversational entities (ACE). Unlike their ancestor Weizenbaum's natural language understanding system ACE are now able to recall, share information and disclose personal interests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1108/03684921011036178
KYBERNETES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cybernetics,Artificial intelligence
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0368-492X
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.67
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huma Shah19211.89
Kevin Warwick212921.37