dinsdag 19 augustus 2008

Would you date this girl?

I guess we need a new version of the Turing test. For those of you whom never has heard of the Turing test please read the definition given by Wiki

The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. In order to test the machine's intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen (Turing originally suggested a teletype machine, one of the few text-only communication systems available in 1950).

When reading this definition there should be a text only channel for obvious reasons. If you could see what'son the other side it might be intelligent but it clearly doesn't look and act as a human being (although robots are getting closer but would you fall in love with a robot of the current generation).

Well when looking at this video it is hard to imagine your not looking at a person (ok, video representation of) but a computer generated image





Emily - the woman in the above linked animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.
She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.


This means we could replace the text based input by video input/output for the Turing test. I wonder how long it will take before the Turing test can overcomethe next barrier

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