The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI

meghan elizabeth writes If the Turing Test can be fooled by common trickery, it's time to consider we need a new standard. The Lovelace Test is designed to be more rigorous, testing for true machine cognition. An intelligent computer passes the Lovelace Test only if it originates a "program" that it was not engineered to produce. The new program—it could be an idea, a novel, a piece of music, anything—can't be a hardware fluke. The machine's designers must not be able to explain how their original code led to this new program. In short, to pass the Lovelace Test a computer has to create something original, all by itself.

Re:Lovelace?

[I'm just joshin]

Maybe they mean the "Linda Lovelace" test?

Re:Lovelace?

[Anonymous Coward]

if a human cannot determine if they just got a hummer from a machine or another human?

Re:Absurd

[Roger W Moore]

Agreed - there is no reason to require the program be written in perl.

Re:Goal Post: Mysticism

[Anonymous Coward]

Not if they heard it before it was cool, then the AI just sold out.

Re:Lovelace?

[TWX]

if a human cannot determine if they just got a hummer from a machine or another human?

Gives a whole new meaning to, "My computer went down on me..."