A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (“CAPTCHA”) is a test to see if someone (or something!) is human. This kind of test is called a Turing Test [1]. The idea of this type of test — and by extension the question of what it is to be human — is a theme in many great science-fantasy books and movies (the 1982 movie Bladerunner [2] deals with this concept specifically). How can we develop AI fully without first understanding and answering these questions?
In this tutorial:
Required knowledge:
1. Examples
2. Objectives
The main purpose is to stop spammers — and more importantly spambots — from operating.
3. Who was Turin anyways?
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. A man of many achievements in the development of theoretical computer science, including providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. [3] All of this before the invention of what we consider the modern computer!
References:
- Wikipedia. (2024) Turing test. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
- Wikipedia. (2022). Blade Runner. Retrieved 14 October 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
- Wikipedia. (2024) Alan Turing. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing (Accessed: 1 July 2024).