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Turing Test for AI, Good and Bad, Plus Needed for Driverless Cars
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
When my children were young, I used to teach them various games such as checkers, chess, Monopoly, and other such fun pastimes. In doing so, I would watch in apt fascination as they played these various games. I was interested in how they played the games and how much further they could go beyond whatever rudimentary tactics and strategies I might have shown them. It was intriguing to gauge how much cognitive capability they had to extend their initial learning and then develop their own expanded strategies and tactics in the games.
As I watched them make moves in the games, let’s take chess as an example, at first I could see them making all of the simplest foundation moves, along with seeing their gambits in trying to tie together several moves into a larger tactic or strategy. When I saw one of them play against another child of their same age, I realized that by watching the chess moves I could pretty quickly estimate the age of the child and whether indeed a child was playing versus an adult playing the game.
I could even detect whether the game was being played by my own son or daughter, due to my having gotten used to their line of play in chess. In other words, even if I could not see who was playing the chess game, if you gave me a list of the…
