

Here is the original article I wrote, which introduces a surprising and unique idea involving a new way to perform a Turing Test using a consequence of Quantum Physics it is an idea that has troubling implications. If they cannot tell, then the machine is judged to be “sentient” in some sense. The goal is for the investigator to try to determine, using only the responses they hear to the questions they ask and the conversations they hold, which room has the computer in it, and which has the human being. You put a phone in each one, and an investigator is given the task of calling the phone in each room from the outside and asking any series of questions they like as they converse with the person or machine. This is sometimes described using the following analogy: you put a computer, and a person, into separate rooms. To try to tell the machine apart from the human being, he devised what we now call a “Turing Test.”

While thinking about “computers” in general, Turing realized a time would come when a “machine” might possess a level of “intelligence” that could be indistinguishable from a human being.
#The observer effect movie#
His life story is captured in the movie “ The Imitation Game ” and also in the book “ Cryptonomicon ” by Neal Stephenson.
