So far, only one computer program has ever passed the test to be considered a human-like being. Conversely, others disagree that the program has actually not passed the tests due to the tests questions being examined and implemented in the program before the test has even begun (“Computer AI Passes Turing Test in 'World First'.”). While controversy surrounds the program and its test taking strategy, many other programs have attempted at trying to pass these tests. The Google AI program AlphaGo has recently beaten the top player, Lee Se-Dol, in the ancient, Asian game of Go. Although the program has just beaten the player in Go, this leaves a lot of room for debaters to ask whether or not the program can achieve a higher-level of intelligence. …show more content…
The Turing test was based off of a game based around a who’s who kind of scenario. The imitation game -- no not the movie -- plays as follows: three players sit in three different rooms, one room containing a man, one containing a woman, and one containing a person known as the “judge”. All three of the players cannot see each other and are all connected by one computer screen -- each person having one computer screen. The man tries to convince the judge that he is the man while the woman tries to deceive the judge by saying that she is the man. In the same way, the Turing test plays the same way, but the computer plays as the woman. The judge then attempts to figure out whether the person he/she chooses is the computer while the computer tries to deceive the judge by saying it is the man. While this is only the big picture of what is actually happening. What is happening on the screen is the judge asking both the man and the computer questions that pertain to something that a therapist and their patients would discuss, such as, “How does that make you feel?” or “ Tell me about this, this, or this” (Reingold). Thus, this test must be implemented in the analysis of AlphaGo and its analysis of not only the game that it was created to play, but life