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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Military Applies "Turing Test" for Artificial Intelligence in MMO's


You will play with new characters on "World of Warcraft" and other MMO's (Massively Multiplayer Online games) and determine for yourselves if the character is convincing enough to be called Intelligent. The turing test is named after Alan Turing and involves two people and a computer. One person, the interrogator, sits alone in a room and types questions into a computer terminal. The questions can be about anything. As answers to questions appear on the terminal, the interrogator attempts to guess whether those answers were typed by the other person or generated by the computer. By repeatedly fooling interrogators into thinking it is a person, a computer can demonstrate intelligent behavior. If it acts intelligently, according to Turing, it is intelligent.


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