Turing test passed (at the children's level of complexity)

She made this program that convinced people that she is a 13-year-old boy from Odessa, Ukraine.



According to the terms of the Turing test, it is considered passed if the program manages to convince of its humanity at least 30% of judges in the process of 5-minute textual communication.

A program developed by Vladimir Veselov from Russia and Ukrainian Yevgeny Demchenko yesterday managed to convince 33% of the judges that she really is a 13-year-old from Odessa Yevgeny Gustman, a lover of sweets and hamburgers and the son of a gynecologist.
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Professor Kevin Warwick of Coventry University remarked that “some will argue that the test has already been passed, because Turing test called a lot of similar competitions around the world, but Turing Test 2014 in London is the most objective and independent of them, besides the subject of the questions was not limited in any way, ” writes The Verge.

The test , organized by the University of Reading, took place yesterday, on Saturday, at the Royal Society in London.

In turn, Vladimir Veselov said that the age of their virtual character strengthened his legend, because at this age it is quite natural to not know any things. So an adult computer can not pretend to be, but a man - completely.

Comment habraseptika:

The project is interesting, the approach is funny *, but what passed there at the university is only one of the variations of the turing test that was passed.
Professor Warwick felt that the test passed was the best, well, ok. You can not agree with him.
Very surprised by his statement. He himself knows that in all modern tests there are no established themes.
And in fact, 33% means that there were only three judges, and only one was deceived.
In the case of the Löbner Prize, for example, 2013, there are four judges, and these are professionals on the subject.
In the case of the test, from what is evident from the press release, among the judges were “actor Robert Llewellyn” and “Lord Sharkey”, who have an indirect relationship to robotics, even though the first one played a robot, and the second was related to Turing. With this approach, a visual turing test for android robots could be performed with Schwarzenegger and Summer Glow as judges, and not with Professor Hiroshi Isiugro or David Henson.
Moreover, so far there are no published results, except for the press release (as opposed to the full background in the case of Löbner test), and everyone shouts about how the test is passed, as if they had not been there before.
(* The approach is funny, but, as already noted in the comments, it can be counted as a scam made specifically for turing testing.)

And the answer is :

The comments are logical, but before making assumptions about the quality of the test, one could follow the link in the post and read about it. What could be found:
- 30 judges
- total 300 5-minute correspondence
- every 5 minutes the judge spoke simultaneously with the car and with the person
- the test was carried out at an independent examination of a friend of the Professor Professor John Barnden, University of Birmingham, formerly head of the British AI Society