Namely, the fact that it’s based on language, and that one may wonder whether being able to converse means one is gifted with ‘thought’. The test as a whole posits several interesting questions and conundrums. Eugene Goostman, especially, with its persona of a 13-year old Ukrainian boy whose English is only second language, has good potential (in that you can tell some of its/his answers are stilted, but not more than if it/he was an actual learner of ESOL). At other times, I was surprised at the outcome, for instance quite a few human participants made ‘boring’ answers to conversations, which in turn prompted judges to believe they were talking to a machine-and conversely, some AIs were clearly programmed with a variety of lively potential responses. I was accurate in my guesses except but once, I think, however I can see where judges were ‘fooled’, and why. Actual, textual examples allow the reader to try and make their own judgment-and determining where the machines are is not so easy as it seems. Several sections in the book are devoted to examples of studies and events during which the test took place, pitching human judges against both machines and other human beings, without the former knowing what or who the latter was.
It sheds light on Turing’s aim when devising the test, as well as on what he predicted, and that may or may not happen sooner than expected. That was an informative, albeit also controversial, read about Turing’s ‘Imitation Game’, focused on the game itself rather than on the man (who I like reading about in general, but here I was definitely more interested in his famous ‘test’, since I keep hearing about it, but never in much detail).
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