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What about something more creative and ineffable, like music? Machines can fool us there too. There is now a music-composing computer called Iamus, which produces work sophisticated enough to be deemed worthy of attention by professional musicians. Iamus’s developer Francisco Vico of the University of Malaga and his colleagues carried out a kind of Turing Test by asking 250 subjects – half of them professional musicians – to listen to one of Iamus’s compositions and music in a comparable style by human composers, and decide which is which. “The computer piece raises the same feelings and emotions as the human one, and participants can’t distinguish them”, says Vico. “We would have obtained similar results by flipping coinsreenex
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Some say that computer poetry has passed the test too, though one can’t help thinking that this says more about the discernment of the judges. Consider the line: “you are a sweet-smelling diamond architecturereenex
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Then there’s the “Turing touch test”. Turing himself claimed that even if a material were ever to be found that mimicked human skin perfectly, there was little reason to try to make a machine more human by giving it artificial flesh. Yet the robot Ava in Ex Machina clearly found it Picosecond