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Contextual test: an alternative way to measure computer ability

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The Imitation Game that was presented by Turing back in the 1950s was an important experiment whose purpose was to provide a basic platform for the question of whether a computer can think. Over the years other views were raised that presented weaknesses of and claims against Turing's test, and some alternative tests were even proposed and recently there is a claim that a program already passes Turing Test. The ability to interface with a huge amount of data from a variety of public resources over the internet creates new functionalities and capabilities that may allow updating of the test rules, modifying them (based on examples, that at least part of them are already implemented) and also changing the scope of the question from whether a computer can think to how relevant the answer is to the requester.

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    cover image AI Matters
    AI Matters  Volume 2, Issue 3
    Spring 2016
    30 pages
    EISSN:2372-3483
    DOI:10.1145/2911172
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