Why do you think I am not human?
I think you are human.
Why do you think that?
Because you have human characteristics.
I didn't realize that.
I just told you.
Tell me again.
You are human.
Yes!
Silver and Gold
So, since I believe it WILL happen, what do we do once the Turing Test is passed regularly, and Hugh's Silver prize has been won? Well, go for Gold is one good answer, obviously, though Hugh's audiovisual requirements are likely to stretch our resources as a group.
The Impersonation Game
A London Professor and I propose an additional path for us - to take on the Personal Turing Test, consisting of not 1, not 4 but 100 Impersonation Games. In each game the bot must convince the judge that it is not merely human, but a person - a person known to that judge. So the task is not merely to be A personality, but to 'be' for all intents and purposes an actual human individual.
Social Presence Cues
We don't require audio or visual input - text might be enough - but we allow and encourage the use of richer social presence cues. What do we mean by that? Well, the Professor is a researcher in the the Social Presence field, hence the terminology. But we mean that in person-to-person interaction there are many clues as to identity and emotion beyond the words said - from facial expression down to heart beat rhythm - and impersonating the responses of an individual may be very valuable for passing the test.
The Addendum
In an Addendum to the paper, released just the other day, we have now proposed a control experiment to determine the pass rate required for the Test, and have announced a new, funded project called Pasion to further research in this area.
Click here for PDFs of The Personal Turing Test paper and its Addendum.
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