In the 67 years since Alan Turing proposed his Imitation Game \u2013 the infamous \u2018Turing test\u2019 for artificial intelligence (AI) \u2013 people have been confused over the very purpose of AI itself.
\nAt issue: whether the point of AI is to simulate human behavior so seamlessly that it can fool people into thinking they are actually interacting with a human being, rather than a piece of software.<\/p>\n
Such deception was never the point of Turing\u2019s exercise, however. Rather, he realized that there was no way to define true intelligence, and thus no way to test for it. So he came up with the game as a substitute \u2013 something people could theoretically test for.<\/p>\n
Regardless of Turing\u2019s intentions, setting the bar for AI based on its ability to snooker an audience has become fully ingrained in our culture, thanks in large part to Hollywood. <\/p>\n