Exclusive: the IdealGov reverse Turing test

WRITTEN ON September 11th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, What do we want?

Dealing with the daily IdealGov spam dose it occurs to me we should have a reverse Turing test. If the original test is

a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test

then our reverse Turing test is

a citizen or customer engages in a natural language conversation with one public servant and one machine, each of which adheres to prevailing policies and targets. If the citizen cannot reliably tell which is which, then the public servant is said to fail the test

We could include that in Sam’s UK Feedback/Bureaucracy Bingo service.

Wibbi public servants took pride and were rewarded for their humanity and not for their conformance to rules and targets? Wibbi we dropped the idea that personal service is something we can mechanise?

4 Responses to “Exclusive: the IdealGov reverse Turing test”

 
Brian Gladman wrote on September 11th, 2008 2:15 pm :

And if 5 civil servants fail the test in one department, the Mininster(s) are sacked?

And if 5 ministers are sacked on this basis, we get a general election?

David Moss wrote on September 12th, 2008 2:17 pm :

William, I must ask, have you ever had breakfast with Sophia Loren?

Web Design Los Angeles wrote on September 13th, 2008 8:41 am :

Thanks for sharing. but can u plz provide more details on it.

Looking forward to it

Ideal Gov administrator wrote on September 13th, 2008 1:16 pm :

No, Web Design Los Angeles. I will not provide more details. Why not? Because YOU fail the reverse Turing test. Your contribution to this conversation is indistinguishable from a spamming machine, so I publish your comment but deleted your URL. I simply do not believe you are looking forward to it, even than you give a fig.