Question: How could your work change science history?

Huma Shah answered on 8 Nov 2016:

Hello again Hans Hodges,

In one sense the science of the Turing test, the idea that gave birth to the area now called artificial intelligence has been changed, because I presented Alan Turing’s own two methods of implementing his test. Turing’s own two tests for his one imitation game had become lost in the philosophical debates over the sixty years. Researchers disagreed on the purpose of the Turing test, others had their own interpretations how to measure a machine’s intellectual capacity.

Through my PhD study I put forward the one-to-one test and the simultaneous comparison test, two different formats for the one imitation game. In the one-to-one format one human interrogator chats with a hidden entity via text only and has to decide if they are human or machine basing their decision on the answers. In the simultaneous comparison test, the human interrogator chats with two hidden entities at the same time and has to decide which is the human, and which is the machine.

This is only a very tiny step in changing science history, the evidence of impact, of making the change in science history is through other people citing your work. I don’t have much yet, but on Academia.edu there have been over 14,500 views of my papers, including over 580 of my PhD thesis:
https://coventry.academia.edu/HumaShah

Of course I’d love to contribute to understanding human language better and be able to help in building robots that can talk like humans. That would go some way to changing science history, in artificial intelligence.

Hope this answer helps.

Huma