I found the Turing Test to be very interesting. I found the A.L.I.C.E. chat bot to be the most convincing. The flow of conversation was much easier than with the other bots. I thought with A.L.I.C.E. it was easier to stay on subject and the chat bot’s questions were relevant and answers normal. With the other bots their answers often made no sense. I think a lot of it is that they learn from users and many users spelling mistakes and bring up strange irrelevant topics. I think a properly running Turing chat bot within the next five years is definitely possible since it learns from having conversations with real people. I do not think that the Turing test is a great test for intelligence, just because a machine can mimic human responses means that it has a good learning algorithm but does not have true human intelligence. The machine is not thinking, thought is original whereas Turing repeats what it has learned.
