Turing test their cars, ascribe desire and intentions to natural forces (e.g., "nature abhors a vacuum"), and worship the sun as a human-like being with intelligence. If the Turing test is applied to religious objects, Shermer argues, then, that inanimate statues, rocks, and places have consistently passed the test throughout history. This human tendency towards anthropomorphism effectively lowers the bar for the Turing test, unless interrogators are specifically trained to avoid it. One interesting feature of the Turing test is the frequency of the confederate effect, when the confederate (tested) humans are misidentified by the interrogators as machines. It has been suggested
The Turing Test (video game) for a further year. Creative producer Howard Philpott cited Croteam's 2014 puzzle game, "The Talos Principle", as a reference point for the progression of introducing new gameplay mechanics in "The Turing Test". The game was published by Square Enix as part of their indie initiative, Square Enix Collective. The game was released for Windows and the Xbox One video game console on 30 August 2016. The PlayStation 4 version was released on 23 January 2017. "The Turing Test" received "generally favourable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The Turing Test (video game) The Turing Test is a first-person puzzle video