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A group of scientists fed up with claims that a chatbot passed the Turing test decided that maybe the test needed a few—or more than a few—revisions. So they're hosting a workshop to do just that.

The Turing test is meant as a metric of artificial intelligence. Named after computer pioneer Alan Turing, it involves a computer having a conversation with a real human via text. If the machine fools human judges more than 30 percent of the time, then it passes the test. But that test is 60 years old, and doesn't account for many metrics of machine intelligence, few of which may have anything to do with verbal learning.

The group of researchers developing the Beyond the Turing Test panel envision a triathlon-style test, though actual running, biking and swimming may be noticeably absent. Panel leaders Gary Marcus of New York University, Francesca Rossi of the University of Padova, and Manuela Veloso of Carnegie-Mellon hope to spend an entire morning hearing out AI test proposals, and then spend the afternoon figuring out how a robot could pass them.

The new tests could involve machines reading, interacting with real-world objects (Veloso previously worked on developing a robot capable of besting the best FIFA players of the world), and other tasks that might show critical thinking skills, as opposed to simply being able to impersonate a human. If the new tests become a standard, then they could help to shape the direction of future AI research.

Via IEEE.

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