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The most common implementation of a Turing test Internet users may see is the {{w|CAPTCHA}} (Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), which is often found on web site registration pages and usually involves trying to identify letters/numbers in an image. The text in the image is often distorted and/or in different colors or sizes or fonts, or may be very blurry as if from a very bad photocopy. This is to deter an automated {{w|Optical character recognition|OCR}} (Optical Character Recognition) program from easily identifying the characters. The idea is that humans can process and decipher things from highly distorted pictures much easier than (current) computer algorithms can. | The most common implementation of a Turing test Internet users may see is the {{w|CAPTCHA}} (Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), which is often found on web site registration pages and usually involves trying to identify letters/numbers in an image. The text in the image is often distorted and/or in different colors or sizes or fonts, or may be very blurry as if from a very bad photocopy. This is to deter an automated {{w|Optical character recognition|OCR}} (Optical Character Recognition) program from easily identifying the characters. The idea is that humans can process and decipher things from highly distorted pictures much easier than (current) computer algorithms can. | ||
| β | The caption makes a play on words, in that ''extra credit'' (optional additional work to perform) is sometimes offered on curricular examinations ("tests") to allow the taker to increase | + | The caption makes a play on words, in that ''extra credit'' (optional additional work to perform) is sometimes offered on curricular examinations ("tests") to allow the taker to increase his or her total score by demonstrating a heightened understanding of the subject, but the Turing test is not such a test. (This misapplication of vernacular associated with academic testing to a non-academic procedure that also bears the name ''test'' is a common vehicle of humor, as in "what if I take a blood test, and don't pass?" One may pass or fail an academic exam, but a blood test only identifies blood type, and the concept of passing or failing is not applicable.) |
Similarly, the title text makes a play on words with "test-ees" vs ''testes'' suggesting that such extra credit would be an ironic twist to Turing test. (Hitting or kicking an adversary in the testes is considered dirty fighting.) This play on words is actually itself a form of aural CAPTCHA; humans can processes and recognize {{w|pun}}s for what they are, but machines generally run afoul of the ambiguity. (Unless Randall trained them for it as in [[1696: AI Research]].) | Similarly, the title text makes a play on words with "test-ees" vs ''testes'' suggesting that such extra credit would be an ironic twist to Turing test. (Hitting or kicking an adversary in the testes is considered dirty fighting.) This play on words is actually itself a form of aural CAPTCHA; humans can processes and recognize {{w|pun}}s for what they are, but machines generally run afoul of the ambiguity. (Unless Randall trained them for it as in [[1696: AI Research]].) | ||
