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Online heads up Turing test, Allyc, 1. Nov 2003 15:20
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You are playing heads up online. Your opponent is either a human player or a computer program.
The program plays a pretty solid game. It varies it's style and can adjust its play according to how its opponent plays, e.g. it can recognise if its opponent goes on tilt. The program also simulates delays for thinking time etc, and so plays at the same tempo as a human player.
Would you be able to tell whether your opponent was human or if it was the program?
If so, then how? and how many hands do you think you would have to play?
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Re: Online heads up Turing test, Formless, 1. Nov 2003 16:12
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I've played certain bots online a lot (Poki, SparBot) and could recognize them with a reasonable degree of certainty after about 10 minutes. It depends on the bot, though. Bots and humans play poker very differently, so my guess is that it would be easier than you think to distinguish between the two if you know what to look for.

on 1. Nov 2003 15:20 Allyc wrote:
> You are playing heads up online. Your opponent is either a human player or a
> computer program.
> The program plays a pretty solid game. It varies it's style and can adjust its
> play according to how its opponent plays, e.g. it can recognise if its opponent
> goes on tilt. The program also simulates delays for thinking time etc, and so
> plays at the same tempo as a human player.
> Would you be able to tell whether your opponent was human or if it was the
> program?
> If so, then how? and how many hands do you think you would have to play?
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