The Turing test tries to answer the question “whether machines can think?” It is also called as an imitation game. The Turing test tries to compare the intelligence of a machine with an intelligence of human as a reference. It was conducted in following steps:
• A machine and a human are placed in distinct rooms apart from the second human being who will be acting as an interrogator.
• Interrogator is allowed to ask different questions of any type to a machine and a human being in a written format without face to face communication.
• The job of an interrogator is to distinguish between machine and actual human being based on the answers he got from two distinct rooms.
• The job of a machine is to fool the interrogator by behaving more humanly.
• If the machine achieves the goal, we can say that the machine is behaving intelligently or humanly.
Although, the test has no bias towards either of machine or a human, it faces some justifiable objections.
1. As stated by X in his Artificial intelligence book that the test is completely based on symbolic problem solving task and it does not consider the natural skills that a human being can possess which is an important part of any human …show more content…
John Searle has argued that there is a significant difference between thinking and imitating a thinking process. For that he conducts a Chinese room experiment where he hypothesize that a machine will takes some Chinese characters as an input and outputs some Chinese characters based on set of given rules. He says that even if the program managed to pass the Turing test and convince the interrogator that it is a Chinese person, in reality it is just executing a set of formal rules. However, the machine cannot have a conversation with a Chinese person. Therefore we cannot say that after the test machine has understood the meaning of Chinese characters. Thus he argues that it is not clear whether the machine is acting intelligently or just trying to mimic the human thinking
• A machine and a human are placed in distinct rooms apart from the second human being who will be acting as an interrogator.
• Interrogator is allowed to ask different questions of any type to a machine and a human being in a written format without face to face communication.
• The job of an interrogator is to distinguish between machine and actual human being based on the answers he got from two distinct rooms.
• The job of a machine is to fool the interrogator by behaving more humanly.
• If the machine achieves the goal, we can say that the machine is behaving intelligently or humanly.
Although, the test has no bias towards either of machine or a human, it faces some justifiable objections.
1. As stated by X in his Artificial intelligence book that the test is completely based on symbolic problem solving task and it does not consider the natural skills that a human being can possess which is an important part of any human …show more content…
John Searle has argued that there is a significant difference between thinking and imitating a thinking process. For that he conducts a Chinese room experiment where he hypothesize that a machine will takes some Chinese characters as an input and outputs some Chinese characters based on set of given rules. He says that even if the program managed to pass the Turing test and convince the interrogator that it is a Chinese person, in reality it is just executing a set of formal rules. However, the machine cannot have a conversation with a Chinese person. Therefore we cannot say that after the test machine has understood the meaning of Chinese characters. Thus he argues that it is not clear whether the machine is acting intelligently or just trying to mimic the human thinking