Down the Rabbit Hole: Testing the Turing Test - 30SecondsToFly Inc.

Have you ever unknowingly spoken to someone who happened to be a computer? Take Scarlett Johansson's character in Spike Jonze's romantic drama Her (2013), for example. Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls in love with an artificial intelligence on his phone, Samantha. If one were to just listen to the audio, it would seem that Samantha is perfectly human in the way she thinks on her own and is able to carry out fully fledged conversations. As odd as that sounds, there's actually a method to test how "human" artificial intelligence appears to be: the Turing Test.