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IMITATION GAME [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Logic (Philosophy)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

The imitation game, known as the Turing test, was introduced by Turing to decide whether a concealed responder was a human or [an] intelligent computer program.

OBS

If a human can question a computer, receive an answer (through an intermediary) and not be able to determine if he or she is communicating with a human or with a machine, then the machine can be said to have intelligence.

OBS

Turing test; imitation game : designations validated by Canadian subject-field experts from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, Laval University and Microsoft Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logique (Philosophie)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

[Turing] commence par [présenter] le «jeu de l'imitation» qui sera plus tard [appelé] «test de Turing», et que l'on pourrait résumer ainsi : un agent artificiel pourra être considéré comme intelligent s'il est indiscernable d'un être humain lors d'une interaction langagière à distance.

OBS

test de Turing; jeu de l'imitation : désignations validées par des spécialistes canadiens de l'Université Concordia, de l'Université Dalhousie, de l'Université Laval et de Microsoft Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lógica (Filosofía)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
DEF

Juego, desarrollado por el matemático inglés Alan Turing, para determinar si una computadora (ordenador) posee inteligencia.

CONT

La prueba de Turing fue la base de la inteligencia artificial y pretendía resolver por vía práctica la cuestión de si las máquinas pueden pensar.

OBS

Los participantes en el juego comprenden dos partes que dan respuestas (un ser humano y la computadora), y un examinador (también humano) que trata de determinar cuál de las dos partes que responden, y que él no puede ver, es el ser humano. De acuerdo con esta prueba la inteligencia y habilidad de la computadora (ordenador) quedaría demostrada si logra engañar al examinador.

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Record 2 2023-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
  • Equipment and Facilities (Recreation)
DEF

A putting game in which twelve numbers are arranged in a circle on the ground in imitation of a clock face, and the players putt the ball from each of these numbers in turn into a single hole placed somewhere within the circle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
  • Installations et équipement (Loisirs)

Spanish

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