Human Human
Duration
Spring’20 (6 weeks)
Skills
Processing, python
Role
Front-end processing & research / user testing: Vicky Zhou
Collaborators
3-D processing & physical prototyping: Davis Dunaway
Spring’20 (6 weeks)
Skills
Processing, python
Role
Front-end processing & research / user testing: Vicky Zhou
Collaborators
3-D processing & physical prototyping: Davis Dunaway
Overview
Computers are advancing and progressing, but some argue that human’s ability to communicate is also regressing. We wanted to create an experience to visualize and reflect on the human-ness of conversations today. The process is as follows: there are two human participants: one judge and one competitor, as well as one bot. The human competitor and the bot are competing to prove their “human-ness”, and the judge infers which response between the two is the human to the best of their ability. As the test progresses, a 3D print is generated in real-time.
Computers are advancing and progressing, but some argue that human’s ability to communicate is also regressing. We wanted to create an experience to visualize and reflect on the human-ness of conversations today. The process is as follows: there are two human participants: one judge and one competitor, as well as one bot. The human competitor and the bot are competing to prove their “human-ness”, and the judge infers which response between the two is the human to the best of their ability. As the test progresses, a 3D print is generated in real-time.
Background:
The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950, and is used to analyze a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, indistinguishable from, that of a human. The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence to award computer programs by judges to be the most human-like.
Project:
Computers are advancing and progressing, but some argue that human’s ability to communicate is also regressing. We wanted to create an experience to visualize and reflect on the human-ness of conversations today. The process is as follows: there are two human participants: one judge and one competitor, as well as one bot. The human competitor and the bot are competing to prove their “human-ness”, and the judge infers which response between the two is the human to the best of their ability. As the test progresses, a 3D print is generated in real-time.
The end product is a conversational piece, and tangible artifact of the experience. At the end of the experience, we hope to leave the users a couple of takeaway questions:
Will this change the way you approach conversations in the future? How do you think human conversation will change in the future? Where does computer conversation fit within this?
Read more about our process here.