uses animated imitation to test and verify the design's result.
In 1950s, Alan Turing proposed a solution to the question of when a system designed by a human is 'intelligent.' Turing proposed the imitation game, a test that involves the capacity of a human listener to make the distinction of a conversation with a machine or another human; if this distinction is not detected, we can admit that we have an intelligent system, or artificial intelligence (AI).
The tests also involved constant moderation to keep the particles from melting within the furnace and therefore the real-world imitation for these tests became a bit less accurate than for others.
Given how responsive our dogs are to us, it's tempting to believe that they do understand us, and indeed dogs pass several theory of mind "tests" (imitation, deception, role-taking, responding to begging) – in some instances, more convincingly than chimpanzees do.
Seventy-one 16-month-old toddlers participated in an imitation paradigm designed to test immediate and long-term declarative memory abilities.
On an immediate and delayed posttest, only the object-manipulation verbs were differentially affected by instructional method, with IE and IR being more effective than no imitation on the immediate test; IE IR and no imitation did not differ significantly.
Turing's imitation game sought to test the intelligence of sophisticated cognitive computing systems, rather than their ability to temporarily imitate a human who awkwardly speaks that person's language.
For example, in an imitation task, retrieval is easily disrupted by a change in the cues between encoding and test (Hayne, 2004; Rovee-Collier, 1997).
Ms. Sperber's imitation Oriental rug passes this test, I think, because she clearly makes something thoughtful from, well, nothing.
Turing also proposed a test, called the "imitation game," in which a computer would prove its intelligence by convincing a person, through conversation, that it is also human.
