Download Science as Inquiry: Content Standard A

An Introduction to the Turing Test
Grades: 6-8
Subject: Artificial Intelligence
National Science
Education Standards
Science as Inquiry: Content Standard A
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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
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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 Jeopardy
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.
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
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
Other CAPTCHAs require
alphanumeric strings instead of
words.
Some CAPTCHAs require users to
trace a given shape found in a
photograph.
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
Responder
• Your goal is to ask the right
• Your goal is to hide the identity
questions to detect the identity
from the Questioners by
of the Responder.
making it difficult to guess.
• You will work as a group to
• You will choose ahead of time
hypothesize on whether the
to respond to ALL questions as
Responder is Artificial
AI or human. AI responses will
Intelligence (AI) or human and
be generated using A.L.I.C.E.
discuss how to tell the
difference between the two.
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
• 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!
Artificial Intelligence