Both Turing Test and GAN Attempt to Fool a Judge

Hussam Hamdan
Nov 2 · 4 min read

Yes, GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Networks. Turing Test tries to assess whether machines can think like humans while GAN try to generate fake images which seem real. But both are games and have a player trying to fool another.

  1. What is Turing Test?

Alan Turing [1], one of the fathers of the computer age, was the first to address the problem of machine intelligence in a methodological way. Turing asked the question: “Can machines think?” but instead of defining what is “think” and what is “machine”, he replaced the…

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Hussam Hamdan

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I’m researcher (PhD, Eng) in NLP and Deep Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hussam-hamdan-75241124?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flags

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