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In the classic sci-fi film Bladerunner, the main plot involved detectives presenting a line of questioning—the Voight-Kampff test—as a way to tell if someone was an android. This set of “what-if” posed scenarios was meant to confuse a robot.
Bladerunner sci-fi aside, did you know that a real-life android quiz was developed in the 1950’s? This exam, called the Turing Test, sought to determine how machines would think if they could.
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Fast forward 70 years and artificial intelligence is fairly advanced. Although we do not yet have human-like robots walking the streets among us, we are often asked to prove our non-android status by clicking photos before authenticating a website. But beyond these security-aimed challenges, there are new detection tools. A modified version of the Turing Test called a “Minimal Turing Test,” has been promoted as a way to quickly spot a cyborg.
Imagine if you had to prove that you were a real person and not a computer. Can you think of one word that you could say to prove you were real?
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This was the challenge posed by researchers looking for an effective way to tell between real and synthetic intelligence. Researchers asked thousands of participants to offer their opinions. Many words offered dealt with emotions and related concepts, such as “love,” “compassion,” and “please.” Then the participants were given the words back in pairs and asked to choose which one came from a human and which came from a robot.
Apparently, most people do not associate artificial intelligence with the bathroom. “Poop” was the word that people most often assumed to be from a human.
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Why “poop?” Researchers didn’t settle that important question. Maybe it’s because robots don’t currently have to go number two. Or maybe it’s because artificial intelligence cannot abide the poop emoji.