• Question: have you ever desighed an experament that a school or learning centre has ever studied?

    Asked by shay to Huma on 10 Nov 2016.
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      Huma Shah answered on 10 Nov 2016:


      Hello Shay,

      Yes, the Turing test experiment I organised at Reading University in 2008 , as part of the 18th Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, involved a school in the preliminary round of judging machines, and in the final contest school pupils took part as judges and hidden humans (foils for the machines).

      You can read about it here:
      https://www.reading.ac.uk/15/research/ResearchReviewonline/featuresnews/res-featureloebner.aspx

      After that I have involved school pupils in later Turing test experiments (in 2012 and 2014), and involved schools and colleges in West London to read the transcripts from the practical Turing tests and say whether answers to questions are from human or machine. Your school can get involved in this exercise if you are interested, do ask your teacher to contact me.

      Huma

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