“Most of the words make sense once you see them, but they’re not necessarily what I would have predicted ahead of time,” Tomer Ullman, a postdoctoral associate in the Computational Cognitive Science group at MIT, told us. The least successful, for obvious reasons, was “robot.” “Poop” was the one that most people thought had been picked by a human. After the answers had been collected, the researchers randomly formed pairs of words and then told another group of 2,405 participants to choose which word they thought was from a human and which one was from a robot - despite the fact that both were selected by humans. In fact, poop had a whole lot of significance for the project. The words human respondents used to prove their humanity included “love” (a massive 14 percent of responses), various answers relating to emotions, compassion, religion, and … “poop.” Because what are we as the planet’s current most intelligent beings if not for lovers of toilet humor? We used techniques from natural language processing to cluster the words that people gave, and modeled people’s words and judgments with ideas from game theory.” “We asked people to give one word to prove that they’re not a smart robot, and to judge the words of others. “We proposed a new method for studying how people think about other kinds of agents, or people that belong to other social groups - essentially give one word to prove your identity,” John McCoy, an assistant professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told Digital Trends.
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