But AlphaGo is trained to play GO by the programmers. The programmers of AlphaGo claim that they did not anticipate the unconventional move.

Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press,Ģ022) by Robert J. Were we seeing the human attribute of creativity in AlphaGo beyond the intent of the programmers? Does this act pass the Lovelace test? Those who understood the game described the move as ingenious and unlike anything a human would ever do. In a match against (human) world champion Lee Sedol in 2016, AlphaGo made a surprising move.

Conquest of GO remained an unmet goal of AI until it was finally achieved by AlphaGo. AI already had mastered tic-tac-toe, then the more complicated game of checkers, and then the still more complicated game of chess. AlphaGo was an impressively monumental contribution to machine intelligence. 4 There have been many cases where a machine looked as if it were creative, but on closer inspection, the appearance of creative content fades.Ī computer program named AlphaGo was taught to play GO, the most difficult of all popular board games. So far, however, no AI has passed the Lovelace test. If AI truly produces something surprising which cannot be explained by the programmers, then the Lovelace test will have been passed and we might in fact be looking at creativity. When it comes to assessing creativity (and therefore consciousness and humanness), the Lovelace test is a much better test than the Turing test. But the question is, does the computer create a result that the programmer, looking back, cannot explain? 3 Results from computer programs are often unanticipated.

2 Computer programs can generate unexpected and surprising results.

The test is named after Ada Lovelace.īringsjord defined software creativity as passing the Lovelace test if the program does something that cannot be explained by the programmer or an expert in computer code. Selmer Bringsjord, and his colleagues have proposed the Lovelace test as a substitute for the flawed Turing test. What follows is an excerpt from Chapter 2. Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022) by Robert J. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Email

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