The Touring test identifies artificial intelligence by treating the hardware/software as a black box. It claims: The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviorequivalent 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 does not check the ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely answers resemble those a human would give. With all of the recent press about Russian bots, I began to wonder if there might be a similar test of posters in PriusChat? Requirements: USA IP address - could be spoofed but an easy test. Single subject - regardless of claimed profile, does the poster ever visit Prius specific forums. Notice there is no examination of accurate posting but whether or not there are posting outside of a single forum. For example, @bisco visits and posts in multiple forums, even those he has no knowledge. After all, the 'right answer' is not a requirement in a Touring test. So we can call him 'real' versus some sort of Russian bot. Bob Wilson
Nope, he fails the non-USA IP address test. After all, USA IP addresses are always used by the most truthful and accurate users. Bob Wilson
A bot would not misspell "Turing" - just a table-look-up task. OTOH grammatical errors are likely because rules (or heuristics or 'cause I say so') are subtly shaded. A clever (ly programmed) bot might toss in a few bad spellings just to throw us off. A caveat, if not a cravat. There - use a silly puns test. Our last fortress against the crawling bots. Aftress? do not know what that might be; possibly a tail. Don't mind being drawn into threads if they cover interesting ground. Yet to be established here. If I wished to spoof internet protocol addresses, I would. Maybe I already do
I'm often accused of being a bot. Gave one accuser a Dunning-Kruger test, which he failed. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
