ABSTRACT
The Turing test is perhaps the most famous test that has never been passed! Alan Turing, considered by many the father of computer science, first posed the test to answer the question as to whether machines, particularly computers, could possess intelligence. He proposed a test whereby a questioner could be connected by terminal to another area where there was an unseen entity. The questioner would be allowed to pose as many questions as desired, and at the end of the time would decide whether the unseen entity in the other room was a human or a machine. If the questioner was definite about the other entity being a human, yet in actuality it was a machine, then the machine would be said to have passed the Turing test and therefore possess intelligence.
However, when Turing first published this proposal, he clearly felt that his readers would have difficulty understanding the problem if the entity in the distant room was either a human or a machine, since at the time there were only a handful of computers in existence. So, as a consequence, he constructed the example assuming that in the not-visible room was a human being, either a male or a female, and that the questioner was to decide the gender of the invisible subject.
This chapter will consider both the history of the human/machine Turing test, but also, for the purposes of our understanding of behavioral cybersecurity, report on actual results carried out in our courses regarding the “gender Turing test” and also discuss a similar concept, the “age Turing test.”
