Identity verification: The New Turing Test

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

Have you seen the movie Ex-Machina? It’s a fascinating journey through the life of a reclusive Silicon Valley billionaire, and examines artificial intelligence (“AI”) as manifested in a very engaging robot. The plot explores the 1950 Turing Test, in which Alan Turing – the father of modern computing –proposed that real AI will have been achieved when a human cannot detect they are talking to an AI bot; that is, in conversation, the AI bot passes as a real human partner in dialogue.

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