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Human or Not?

The article discusses the 2008 Loebner Prize competition in which computer programs are pitted against human judges. The judges must ascertain whether they are conversing with a human or a computer. The author explores the 1950 suggestion by mathematician Alan M. Turing that computers could be said...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 12; p. 15
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2008
Subjects:
Human-computer interaction
Computer software research
Economic competition
Mathematics
Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
Conversation
Computer science research
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the 2008 Loebner Prize competition in which computer programs are pitted against human judges. The judges must ascertain whether they are conversing with a human or a computer. The author explores the 1950 suggestion by mathematician Alan M. Turing that computers could be said to be thinking if, in a text-based conversation, one could not distinguish the computer's response from a human's response. The article reports that in the 2008 competition, each of the judges was fooled by one of the six programs.