Turing Test
Categories: Financial Theory
So we’ve all been there in the workshop in the basement trying to code an artificial intelligence to simplify our lives. The problem is that, once we’re done with the thousands and thousands of lines of code which are supposed to mimic actual intelligence, how do we know if we actually created an artificial intelligence...or just a crappy bot that repeats back what we asked it in a different way?
We apply the Turing Test, conceived by Alan Turing. Let’s say we are having a conversation via instant messaging with someone we assume is a person, but is actually a computer intelligence. If, after a designated period of time, we can’t tell that the “person” is really a computer, then the computer intelligence has passed the Turing Test and can be assumed to be actually “thinking.” Which is actually more than you can say for most humans.
