The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human. Many think that Turing’s proposal for intelligence, especially creativity, has been proven inadequate. Is the Lovelace test a better alternative? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss the Turing test, the Lovelace test, and machine creativity.

Show Notes

• 00:43 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• 01:43 | What is the Turing test?
• 03:56 | The Lovelace objection
• 04:26 | Ada Lovelace
• 07:40 | The consciousness objection
• 08:57 | Eugene Goostman
• 09:48 | The Lovelace test
• 13:49 | AlphaGo’s “creative” move
• 16:45 | Creative writing
• 18:07 | Has the Lovelace test been passed?
• 21:33 | How could it be proven that the Lovelace test was passed?
• 25:05 | Ray Kurzweil and singularity

Additional Resources

• Selmer Bringsjord’s website
• The Turing test at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Ada Lovelace at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Charles Babbage at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Bringsjord, Selmer, Paul Bello, and David Ferrucci. “Creativity, the Turing test, and the (better) Lovelace test.” The Turing Test. Springer, Dordrecht, 2003. 215-239. Link: http://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/SELPAP/REPRINTS/LOVELACE/lovelace.pdf
• Eugene Goostman at Wikipedia
• AlphaGo at Wikipedia
• Ray Kurzweil