Acting Humanly: Turing Machine Approach (contd..)
What Turing had predicted at that time, now is a fact that the machine or the computer can imitate human behaviuor. It should be pointed out that Turing’s beliefs about the capabilities and capacities of machines are not limited to such activities as playing the imitation game as successfully as human beings. Roughly speaking, the test Turing proposed is that the computer should be interrogated in the place of human beings.
Turing’s test deliberately avoided direct physical interaction between the interrogator and the computer, because physical limitation of a person is unnecessary for intelligence. However, the so-called Turing test includes a-video signal so that the interrogator can test the subject’s perceptual abilities. In order to pass through total Turing test, the computer will need computer vision to perceive objects and robotics to move them.
Again, the issue of acting like a human comes up primarily when artificial intelligence programs have to interact with people, as when expert system explains how it came to its diagnosis, or a natural language processing system has a dialogue with a user. These programs must behave according to certain normal covertness of human interaction in order to make them understood. The Turing test shows that machines can interact with human beings the way human beings interact amongst themselves. That is to say that machines can behave the way the human beings do.