Monday, March 9, 2015

Turing Test

The essence of the Turing Test revolves around whether a computer can successfully impersonate or imitate a human given the subjects communicate solely via messaging system. To pass the test, a computer would have to be capable of communicating, at least as competently as a person. As there is no restriction on the subject matter, anything within the scope of an average human being can be asked by the interrogator. This comes out to be having possibilities of discussion in different fields like art, science, personal history, social relationships etc.

I believe the scope of the communication between the interrogator and the machine being so vast and diverse, it is highly unlikely to imprint all the various possibilities into any system, with which it can behave in same way as a men do. Moreover the machines do not understand what they are doing. They just process imprinted information present within them. They also lack instinct behaviour and common sense which can be observed differently in different human beings.

I believe that no machine can replace /imitate a human perfectly. The ‘free will’ that men have is absent in machines. Decades of artificial intelligence have made machines better but could not provide ‘free will’ to them. This would mean that while two identical men in the same situation might respond differently, two similar machines under same situation would respond the same way. Along with the time, we tend to evolve which makes us highly unpredictable. Even the most advanced AI (Artificial intelligence) systems or machines just uses some specific or predefined symbols for pattern matching there by producing an output .They actually don’t understand the meaning of the symbols. To a machine, all the symbols are similar. If the meaning of a specific symbol is changed then they would never be able to give a correct output. I believe that machines can be used to facilitate human interaction than to replace them.

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