Due: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025

This assignment is worth 25 points. For full credit:

• submit responses to BrightSpace by class time on the due date
• see the Deliverables section below

Reading:

• Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
• Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA - A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine
  

Written Part (15 points).

Write an essay of at least three paragraphs that explains why you do or do not believe that the chatbot known as Eugene Goostman has successfully passed the Turing Test.  You'll need at least these sources: Turing's paper, Wiezenbaum's, and at least two quality sources: one affirming and one denying that Eugene Goostman actually passes (for example, Scott Aaronson's post). Note: this chatbot did not win the Loebner prize. You can argue whether it could, for example. Cite all sources you use.

Scott captures one big problem in his response to a commenter:

HKI #7: This sort of thing isn�t what the AI community has been working on for the past 45 years. Indeed, one of the big problems with all the publicity surrounding these chatbot competitions, is that they encourage the misconception that this is what AI people do. (Imagine mathematicians� reaction, if the progress in math over the last half-century were judged by how fast people can mentally multiply 4-digit numbers, compared to how fast they could do so in the sixties.)

If people want something concrete by which to gauge the progress in AI, they�d do better to discuss Google, Google Translate, Deep Blue, Watson, the image-tagging in Facebook, and speech-recognition programs.

Programming Problem (5 points).

Show that you've been able to run the AIPython program agentBuying.py by generating a screenshot of the graph it produces (some of you have already done this, but for consistency I still want screenshots from everyone). You can do this on the Linux Lab computers or your own installation.

Follow these steps to get the graphs (I assume you've downloaded the AIPython zip file and expanded it into a directory):

1. Make sure you've activated your Anaconda virtual environment. If your prompt does not have the (base) prefix, run conda activate.
2. Change your directory to where you've stored the Python program.
3. Edit the file agentBuying.py by uncommenting the last 4 lines of the file (these do the simulation and plot the graph)
4. Run ipython -i agentBuying.py and screenshot the graph it produces.
5. Just looking at the graph, not the code, what do you think the agent is basing its decision to buy on? You can answer this question in the same document as your Turing Test essay.

Deliverables.

You can turn in the written part one of these ways:

• Complete the assignment on paper and turn in at the beginning of class on the due date
• Complete the assignment in a text editor and post to the Assignments page on BrightSpace by the due date
• Either way, make sure your name is clearly visible
• Please do not write on paper and post a photo taken on your phone. If you wrote your answers on paper, turn in the paper.

Post your screenshots to BrightSpace.

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