The Turing Test

1. The original “imitation game” consisted of a man and a woman separated into two different rooms. Both parties were communicating with one other person, an interviewer, through a chat room type system. The interviewer the man and woman are talking to is attempting to determine who is the man, and who is the woman. The man in this scenario is attempting to convince the interviewer that he is the woman and the woman in this scenario is simply acting normal. During the interview session, the male participant is replaced with a machine. To pass the test, the interviewer must still not be able to tell between the man and the woman.
Today, the imitation game is known as the Turing Test and there have been some changes made to it. Instead of the scenario with the man and woman, it has been simplified to a person trying to determine if they are speaking with another human or a computer.

2. I do not think the Turing Test is a good way to determine whether a machine is intelligent. I feel this
As the interrogator, I would ask the following questions:
“Are you afraid to die?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“What is 585 multiplied by 892?”
“Could you explain that further?”
“Have you ever loved someone?”
“How do you get to your house?”

4. I do not believe Eliza passed the Turing Test. I say this because as I was speaking with Eliza, I did not feel like we were having a conversation. She was simply rewording what I was saying and forming it into a question. There were no straight forward answers to my questions. Eliza talked around what I was saying and it seemed like the goal of the program was to keep the human talking for most the time.

5. I believe Eliza succeeds in fooling people because she rewords what people have said and repeats it back to them in an effort to keep them talking for most of the time. Eliza keeps people talking about themselves or the topic they have brought up and keeps people focused on the