
It needs to replicate the odd hop-step Joe Bob exhibits every time he stands up from a chair because of a compressed disk in his back. It must replicate his breath, his cologne, the tic in his left eye when he sees bees, and his tendency to not speak coherently when he sees a larger-than-average bosom. He's also wearing his name tag with that horrible photo that was taken just before his smile finished forming.īecause of all that, the AI needs to look exactly like Joe Bob. the one that's for some reason bright yellow.

Maybe he loves tacos and they recognize his breath. The question is predicated on people not believing the examiner when he claims to be human.

This question has too many problems to be answered in any way other than "no." Here's why. *** And I fail to understand why the term appears in the acronym CAPTCHA Now I know that it's not like that***, so I could decide whether I prefer to drop the term Turing test or to adapt the story to fit an actual Turing test, there are answers for both scenarios here. If he or she says 'human' when it actually is 'machine', the AI passed the test. At the end of the conversation, he or she has to tell whether it was human or machine. Pop culture (or plain ignorance) induced me to think that the test featured a human examiner who interrogates an entity that could be either a human or an AI. It has been pointed out that I'm confused about what a Turing test actually is, and rightfully so. ** As I believed a Turing test to be, please read the update

* I am not interested in the details of how that actually happens: for example machines and people could look the same in this world While the human nature of the person could be determined via biological or medical tests (like by simply verifying that they bleed when cut), I'd like to invent some circumstances that make that impossible.

The examiner is kept in the lab as a machine forever.įor this to work, I need people not to believe the examiner when he or she claims to be a human, thus failing a Turing test**. Having successfully taken the examiner's place, it leaves: it is now free and lives among humans. It convinces everyone else that it, the machine, is actually the examiner while he or she, the examiner, is actually the AI*. An AI exploits the Turing test to gain its freedom:
