Just more than seventy years ago, Alan Turing, working on the first crude computer which had intelligence, made a statement on how to establish when a source of intelligence was human or artificial intelligence.
The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from that of a human.Today it is known as AI or artificial intelligence.
That test worked really well ... well until today when machines were endowed with incredibly advanced information systems unimaginable by Alan Turing.
The lines or grey area to decide whether a piece if information was written by a human or a machine has become so blurred, that the Turing Test fails most of the time these days.
What is the difference then and what new test can be devised to establish whether a certain response came from a man or a machine.
The answer is not very difficult and it is based on other parameters than what Turing used.
The answer is consciousness.
It is only now that we realize that consciousness is not a function of our brain. In fact, our brain is just a super computer - nothing more and nothing less.
Today a Turing test should establish whether a source of untelligence is aware or conscious of its response.
That is all, but the test may not be as easy as the Turing test.
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