The Personal Turing Test - an Addendum, November 21st, 2005
In an earlier paper we proposed a variant on Alan Turing's Imitation Game. For the new Impersonation Game a machine must adopt the persona of a human individual and convince the judge either that it 'is' that person, or at least create sufficient uncertainty that the judge says 'I don't know'.
We now propose a control experiment - humans impersonating humans - to determine how many of the proposed 100 Impersonation Games must be won to pass the Personal Turing Test.
We also announce a new, funded project called Pasion to further social presence research, which may help to lead to techniques of passing the Personal Turing Test.
An addendum by Rollo Carpenter of Jabberwacky, and Jonathan Freeman of i2 media research, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Addendum as a web page: http://www.jabberwacky.com/pttaddendum
Addendum as a pdf: http://www.jabberwacky.com/s/pttaddendum.pdf
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