Assignment I – A Modified Turing Test

Part A We will perform a modified Turing test. You will speak to two chat bots and a classmate. You will email me a transcript of your conversations. In order to make everyone as anonymous as possible, one person/computer will be labeled person A and the other person B. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS AND I HAVE TO EDIT YOUR TEXT……….

a) Talk to two robots from the Turing Hub page. The references and resources pages have lists of bots. Email me a transcript of conversation. The class email address for this project is:

csc480@gmail.com

b) Conversations should be no more than 20 lines. Let me know which bot you were speaking to.

c) Talk to classmate, whom you don't know, using IM or similar chat room. Label each of you as Person A or Person B. Email me a transcript of this conversation as well. Edit any kind of identifying things out of your conversation, such as "I went to the Staten Island Mall yesterday." Keep the transcript of your conversation to about 20 lines.

ALL Conversations are DUE February 6

c) For Fun: http://www.convo.co.uk

c) For more fun: Check out the Turing Twinkie Test http://www.twinkiesproject.com/turing.html

d) More more fun: Sample conversation between Prof Imberman and bot. (Who is who??)

Hi person A
Hi there om. What are you wearing?

A T shirt
You may be wondering if this is a person or a computer responding.

yes I am
It goes without saying. Really interesting.

guess you're a computer
I can't guess. Tell me.

okay you are a COMPUTER
Yeah okay, What if I said I was a person pretending to be a computer?

I'd say you were lying
I was?

yup, you are lying
When? I really couldn't say for sure. No I'm telling the truth.

Part B

e) Classify each conversation as robot, or human. Details to be announced

f) LOEBNER PRIZE

Part C

· Read the paper, "If Not Turing's Test, Then What??", AI Magazine, Vol 28 Number 4 (Handed out in class)

· Discussion Board: Details to be announced