Today I read a paper titled “Variations of the Turing Test in the Age of Internet and Virtual Reality”
The abstract is:
Inspired by Hofstadter’s Coffee-House Conversation (1982) and by the science fiction short story SAM by Schattschneider (1988), we propose and discuss criteria for non-mechanical intelligence.
Firstly, we emphasize the practical need for such tests in view of massively multiuser online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and virtual reality systems like Second Life.
Secondly, we demonstrate Second Life as a useful framework for implementing (some iterations of) that test.