Will Cyc pass the Turing Test any time soon ?
The Turing Test is a test developed by the computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954). It proposed a method to determine if a computer program should be classified as intelligent. Essentially, the test involves two input devices, one to a computer, and the other to a human. If an observer, using the input devices, cannot determine which device communicates with the machine, and which communicates with the human, the computer is said to have ‘passed’ the Turing test. The Cyc Team is interested in creating an Artificial Intelligence based agent. If in the process of creating this agent a program is created that should pass the Turing Test, it would be very satisfying. The type of common knowledge that is being put into Cyc would, in general, be useful to a program which attempted to pass the Turing Test. It is not expected that the Cyc program will pass the Turing Test in the near future. Subject: [9] Cyc standards with ANSI or ISO standards It is important to the Cyc team that