Grades: 6-8 Subject: Artificial Intelligence An Introduction to the Turing Test

National Science Education Standards Science as Inquiry: Content Standard A Abilities Necessary to Do Scientific Inquiry 1.Design and conduct a scientific investigation 2.Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data 3.Develop description, explanation, prediction, and models using evidence Science and Technology: Content Standard E Understandings About Science and Technology

National Science Education Standards Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Content Standard F Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges History and Nature of Science: Content Standard G Historical perspectives

Who is Watson?

Creating Watson

Watson in Action Is Watson intelligent? Why or why not? Be sure to support your response with what “intelligent” means. In February 2011 Watson beat the human contestants on JeopardyJeopardy

Is Watson Intelligent? Yes, Watson is intelligent.No, Watson is not intelligent.

What’s Next for Watson? What are some other possible uses for Watson? The IBM team who created Watson has ideas of their own.IBM team

Human or Not? Text a simple question: “What is the color of the sky?” Your received response: “The sky is blue.” How do you know if the response you received was from a human?

What is Artificial Intelligence? What does artificial intelligence mean to you? Artificial Intelligence defined by two experts Artificial Intelligence

He was an English computer scientist who developed a test in the 1950s as a way to gauge if a machine could respond intelligently. Who is Alan Turing.

CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAPTCHA Examples Some CAPTCHAs require users to trace a given shape found in a photograph. Other CAPTCHAs require alphanumeric strings instead of words.

Time to Explore! You will be either a “Questioner” or a “Responder” for our next activity. There will be no communication between the groups other than the questions and their responses.

Time to Explore! Questioner Your goal is to ask the right questions to detect the identity of the Responder. You will work as a group to hypothesize on whether the Responder is Artificial Intelligence (AI) or human and discuss how to tell the difference between the two. Responder Your goal is to hide the identity from the Questioners by making it difficult to guess. You will choose ahead of time to respond to ALL questions as AI or human. AI responses will be generated using A.L.I.C.E.A.L.I.C.E.

Questioner Group ONLY Choose 15 of the 30 provided questions. Think about which questions will be best to ask. Questions will be asked in three sets of five. Write the questions individually and pass to the Responder group to await their response.

Questioner Group ONLY After the first set of five questions you can: Maintain your hypothesis about the identity (either human or AI) of the responder Revise your hypothesis about the identity of the responder State the identity of the responder. Remember that you may ask all of your 15 chosen questions!

Responder Group ONLY You must decide to respond as either human or AI before we begin. Your responses as human must: Directly answer the question Provide no added or irrelevant information Be short, complete, and grammatically correct

Responder Group ONLY Your responses as AI will require you to: Type the question exactly as written by the Questioner into the “You say” box on the A.L.I.C.E. website A.L.I.C.E. Write your answer on the piece of paper to pass to the Questioner

Explain Your Findings Questioners: How did the questions you asked help you to identify the Responder as human or AI? Responders: Was it easy to hide the identity from the Questioner? Was the identity more easily detected for those that responded as human compared to those that responded as AI?

Did A.L.I.C.E. exhibit intelligence? Yes!No!

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