• Question: what machines do you use to carry out your experiments?

    Asked by Emily to Huma on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Huma Shah

      Huma Shah answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      Hello Emily,

      For Turing test experiments, as well as hiring venues (Bletchley Park, rooms in The Royal Society London, for example), I use computers, laptops, network wires and Internet access so that the different participants can talk to each other without seeing each other.

      We invite developers of virtual robots – machines that try to talk like humans, to take part in the experiments. We also invite human judges, and ‘hidden humans’ to act as foils for the machines – that is, they have to be themselves – human, in the experiment.

      Huma

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