Turing Test: Can Machines Think

Discussion of the 1950 paper by Alan Turing that proposed what is now called the Turing Test. This is one of the most impactful papers in the history of AI and the first paper in the AI paper club on our Discord. Slides for this video: References sheet: OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:02 - Paper opening lines 3:11 - Paper overview 7:39 - Loebner Prize 11:36 - Eugene Goostman 13:43 - Google’s Meena 17:17 - Objections to the Turing Test 17:29 - Objection 1: Religious 18:07 - Objection 2: “Heads in the Sand“ 19:18 - Objection 3: Godel Incompleteness Theorem 19:51 - Objection 4: Consciousness 20:54 - Objection 5: Machines will never do X 21:47 - Objection 6: Ada Lovelace 23:22 - Objection 7: Brain in analog 23:49 - Objection 8: Determinism 24:55 - Objection 9: Mind-reading 26:34 - Chinese Room thought experiment 27:21 - Coffee break 31:42 - Turing Test extensions and alternatives 36:54 - Winograd Schema Challenge 38:55 - Alexa Prize 41:17 - Hutter Prize 43:18 - Francois Chollet’s Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge (ARC) 49:32 - Takeaways 56:51 - Discord community 57:56 - AI Paper Reading Club