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Has someone formalized some rules for a Turing test?

2 points by tassadalf ↗ HN
e.g. if I'm the Judge, am I allowed to ask "are you an AI"?

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[dead] medionsa23
Trouble_007
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dtagames
Indeed. That's the ultimate formalization of all of comp sci. As ASCII art!
dtagames
Turing himself defined the test. I think what you're asking is, "Can the AI lie?" In his Imitation Game, the original Turing Test, the machine lies on purpose. The goal is for the human to detect that.
tassadalf
That means the machine must lie to ever pass the Turing Test. Maybe it's not ethical then to try and create an AI that can pass the test?
dtagames
If it didn't lie, there would be no test, as you observed. Turing didn't try to show that machines could think -- only that they could act like it. In that sense, we already have machines that (unintentionally) mislead us. But they will never demonstrate true intelligence. Even Descartes knew that.
lulzury
I like François Chollet's take [0] on the Turing Test:

> Bots that "pass the Turing test" are to AI research what a David Copperfield show in Vegas is to physics research. (And yes, his shows do involve some amount of physics and engineering.)

[0]https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1344738704724611072