A Turing-Like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence

In the Turing test, a computer model is deemed to “think intelligently” if it can generate answers that are not distinguishable from those of a human. This test is limited to the linguistic aspects of machine intelligence. A salient function of the brain is the control of movement, with the human hand movement being a sophisticated demonstration of this function. Therefore, we propose a Turing-like handshake test, for machine motor intelligence. We administer the test through a telerobotic system in which the interrogator is engaged in a task of holding a robotic stylus and interacting with another party (human, artificial, or a linear combination of the two). Instead of asking the interrogator whether the other party is a person or a computer program, we employ a forced-choice method and ask which of two systems is more humanlike. By comparing a given model with a weighted sum of human and artificial systems, we fit a psychometric curve to the answers of the interrogator and extra...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: HAPTICS
• Authors: Amir Karniel, Ilana Nisky, Guy Avraham, Bat-Chen Peles, Shelly Levy-Tzedek
• Keywords: HAPTICS 2010, Human Computer Interaction, Human Hand Movement, Interrogator, Turing-like Handshake Test