Chapter 20 (1/2)

Chapter 20: Turing Test

“I cannot answer the question you want to ask me.” Luqiu Duanyi answered firmly.

“Why?” Yue Qiang asked loudly. He noticed that Luqiu Duanyi didn’t use the words ‘I don’t know’ and instead used the words ‘I cannot’.

“I just can’t. In addition, you must not under any circ.u.mstance mention those questions in your mind. Not in any circ.u.mstance, do you understand?” Luqiu Duanyi warned seriously, “This is so that I can… but more importantly it is for your own good!”

Yue Qiang grew impatient. He could sense from her words that she had hidden certain information, but what he was more concerned about was the truth behind this game.

At the beginning, he had thought that this was at best a super OP power; one that belonged to no one but himself.

But the cla.s.s beauty Rao Xiao Ting’s reactions, and even those people who had, upon meeting, fawned over him during the night he went out to test his charm. they gave him a feeling that it wasn’t real. Now he felt it was more and more likely that his thoughts were true.

Listening to the firm rejection in Luqiu Duanyi’s tone, Yue Qiang sneered, “Do you think that I cannot confirm the truth on my own?”

He meant what he said.

He used the word ‘confirm’ and not guess, because the guess had been there since a long time ago.

The contents of this guess was really simple: What if Rao Xiao Ting was an NPC?

Let’s take a step further. What if, all those employees and hostesses he met when he went out on the first day were all NPCs?

This guess was too terrifying, and he did not dare to think that it was true. That was why he needed to confirm it.

There were other ways to acquire information other than through this suspicious Luqiu Duanyi woman.

The plan he first thought up was neither to speak to more people on the streets, nor meet up with the cla.s.s beauty Rao Xiao Ting right away. The plan was a proper noun that he had learned when he attended a specialized course – the Turing Test.

Turing was a scientist, and he was incredibly famous in the field of computer science. In the past he had put forward a conjecture and thought of a way to test it. The rough content of the conjecture was: Artificial intelligence would definitely reach a level of intelligence that would be absolutely indistinguishable by humans.

The relevant test method was like this: In 5 minutes, if a computer could answer a series of questions posed by a human tester, and convince the tester that these questions were answered by a human, then the computer would pa.s.s the test.

The Turing Test was a representation of the test to see if an AI was truly intelligent.

Now, he would borrow this test and prove in reverse his own horrifying conjecture.

He hoped to disprove it, but he couldn’t be certain.

“Since you refuse to tell me,” While walking towards the bedroom Yue Qiang said, “Please excuse me for a few minutes before we start the physical training. I would like to make a phone call.”

“Go ahead.” She said and watched Yue Qiang entering the bedroom before shutting the door. Luqiu Duanyi had no plans to stop him, and in fact she even looked somewhat relieved. She whispered, “May you discover the whole truth as soon as possible.”

Inside the bedroom.

First, Yue Qiang looked through some common questions that could be used to conduct the Turing Test in the internet. Some of the most common scientific questions that were posted on websites are as follows:

[Question: Do you play chess?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you play chess?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please answer my question one more time: do you play chess?

Answer: Yes.]

In this case, then it was very likely that the questioner was just facing a computer.

On the other hand, if it was the below case:

[Question: Do you play chess?

Answer: Yes.