Computers cannot judge the Turing Test
Posted by wendyg in People and IT, fraud at August 4th, 2007
I’m in a session on Google click fraud, and the ultimate problem, Broward Horne, is saying is that the TCP/IP and the Web were never designed to uniquely identify individual people or enforce identity - but that is what Google’s business is based on (when it charges and pays based on clicks on advertising links). So far, this fundamental mismatch has not hurt Google’s business or its stock price, but eventually…
…a link that turned up to a Wired article by Bruce Schneier points out that this problem is endemic online and turns up all over the place, hence so many systems (captchas, etc.) to ensure that a real human is at the keyboard. We can fool computers better than they can fool us.
wg
December 29th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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In Turing Test Two, two players A and B are again being questioned by a human interrogator C. Before A gave out his answer (labeled as aa) to a question, he would also be required to guess how the other player B will answer the same question and this guess is labeled as ab. Similarly B will give her answer (labeled as bb) and her guess of A’s answer, ba. The answers aa and ba will be grouped together as group a and similarly bb and ab will be grouped together as group b. The interrogator will be given first the answers as two separate groups and with only the group label (a and b) and without the individual labels (aa, ab, ba and bb). If C cannot tell correctly which of the aa and ba is from player A and which is from player B, B will get a score of one. If C cannot tell which of the bb and ab is from player B and which is from player A, A will get a score of one. All answers (with the individual labels) are then made available to all parties (A, B and C) and then the game continues. At the end of the game, the player who scored more is considered had won the game and is more “intelligent”.
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http://turing-test-two.com/ttt/TTT.pdf