Ageno Professor Part of Turing Test
Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business Adjunct Professor John Denning, MHA, was part of the first team to pass the 65-year-old Turing Test, organized by the University of Reading, England. Judges at the Royal Society in London believed they spent a five-minute keyboard conversation with a 13-year-old boy, when actually it was a computer program.
The Turing Test is based on a 1951 paper written by Alan Turing. The paper proposed a test called “The Imitation Game” that might finally settle the issue of machine intelligence. The first version of the game he explained involved no computer intelligence whatsoever.
Imagine three rooms, each connected via computer screen and keyboard to the others. In one room sits a man, in the second a woman and in the third sits a person, call him or her the “judge”. The judge’s job is to decide which of the two people talking to him through the computer is the man. Continue reading…
