Re: Turing test

["Magnus Persson" <magnus.persson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here is a little puzzle for you all:
> a game record between a person and a computer program. Now which is which,
> and why? Please try to form an opinion by looking only at the moves played,
> even if you happen to know the game already. If you were the human playing
> or if you were writing the program, what would you do differently?

I did not dare to make a guess initially but now two voices has 
already supported my theory that white is the human.

White often plays with a "creative stubborness" that is often seen in 
beginners who sometimes beleive more in their spontanous ideas  than 
they beleive the  actual board position.

Black plays "consistently slow". Almost too boring to be human. 

There was also an occasion in the endgame where white failed to 
capture a large block of stones that was in atari - a very human 
error (but some times programs do exactly this - not because the 
program fails to see the atari but because the priorities are wrong).

Probably wrong, but now I know I am in good company...

Magnus Persson
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Magnus Persson
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Department of psychology, Uppsala University