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Turing test

Posted By: Matt Ryder
Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 6:06 a.m.

In Response To: Turing test (rod)

Bots can't pass the Turing test yet. Anyone capable of playing decent backgammon can certainly determine whether they are playing a bot if they look to make that determination.

Bots are still not up to the task of passing a formal Turing Test (see footage from the latest Loebner Contest - 2009 Turing Test.)

But a formal Turing Test isn't required to fool a human on a backgammon server. In my experience, online players are not particularly urbane conversationalists, and I'm certain that any semi-decent AI chatbot could emulate the usual terse exchanges. I remember a bot on FIBS that was quite a decent chat artist.

If you think bots can only give stilted 'automatic' responses, try chatting with this one:

Suzette.

Most BG players are trying to emulate bots in their play (reverse Turing style), so it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the carbon from the silicon.

Messages In This Thread

• How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
  Max Urban -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:07 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    misja -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:09 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Stick -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 12:49 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 6:26 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Dan Pelton -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:23 p.m.
        • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
          Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:41 p.m.
          • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
            W Womack -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:57 p.m.
            • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
              Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:34 a.m.
              • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:01 a.m.
                • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                  Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:24 a.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Max Urban -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:01 p.m.
                    • Turing test
                      rod -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:55 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 4:20 p.m.
                        • Turing test
                          Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 5:06 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:28 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Dave -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
                            • Turing test
                              Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 8:01 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 6:06 a.m.
                        • Turing test
                          pierrez -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:07 a.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:42 p.m.
                            • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG? *NM*
                              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 5:24 p.m.
                              • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG?
                                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 7:47 p.m.
                        • Turing test - easy to tell
                          rod -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 5:53 p.m.
                        • Very human indeed!
                          Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 11:44 p.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:36 p.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 8:10 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Dave Ranson -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:10 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 2:39 p.m.
  • Here's one way
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:54 a.m.
    • Here's one way
      Frank Berger -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:17 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:28 p.m.
    • Here's one way
      Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:59 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:19 p.m.
        • Here's one way
          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:29 p.m.