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| Turing test: Proposal by A. M. Turing (Alan M. Turing In Computing machinery and intelligence (= 59). Mind (journal), 1950) to find out whether a machine has the ability to think. The machine has to answer questions, whereby a more or less high degree of everyday knowledge is required. See also Artificial intelligence, Strong artificial intelligence, Artificial consciousness._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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J. Weizenbaum on Turing-Test - Dictionary of Arguments
I 14 Turing-Test/Weizenbaum: between 1964 and 1966, Weizenbaum created a computer program called ELIZA, which was able to imitate a human conversation in a deceptively authentic way. I 15 Topic-related scripts were written to enable the machine to conduct a conversation along a theme, or to imitate the development of a conversation in this direction. The machine expressed sentences about a print output. These sentences were held in such a way that the human interlocutor was encouraged to contribute further information on his own initiative. For example, a psychiatrist's conversation with a patient was faked, in other words: a human user was given the impression that he was talking to a human psychiatrist, which was not the case. I 17 This program was made at MIT and became known as Doctor. I 19 Users established an emotional relationship with this program. I 20 A typical mistake in ELIZA's assessment was that people thought it was a solution to the problem in how far computers could understand language. This shows what exaggerated expectations even educated people attribute to technology that they do not understand. >Artificial consciousness, >Artificial intelligence, >Human level AI, >Technology, >Understanding, >Language, >Meaning, >Human-machine communication._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Weizenbaum I Joseph Weizenbaum Computer Power and Human Reason. From Judgment to Calculation, W. H. Freeman & Comp. 1976 German Edition: Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft Frankfurt/M. 1978 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20