A Turing Tournament for Behavioral Economics

社会科学的一个基本目标是建立人类行为的良好模型。但是，很难知道我们什么时候取得了成功-有许多相互竞争的模式，使用标准方法，很难将它们相互比较。 在这项研究中，我们提出了一种方法，涉及基于计算机的图灵锦标赛，其中模拟器的数据（计算机程序设计为在重复的2人游戏中“像人类受试者一样”）和人类受试者的数据通过检测器（计算机程序设计为将人类与模拟器数据分开）进行比较。获胜的检测器是最能将人类从模拟器中区分出来的检测器。获胜的模拟器是最能欺骗最好的探测器的模拟器。 与其他比赛不同，这不是一个程序玩另一个赢得比赛。毕竟，这个想法不是要比人类更好，而是要完全像人类。这项活动的广泛好处之一将是创建一个公开的测试平台，研究人员可以在其中测试他们的行为模型与真实的人类行为，研究人员可以测试他们的方法检测非人类行为的有效性。

One fundamental goal of social science is to develop good models of human behavior. But, it is difficult to know when we have been successful -- there are many competing models and, using standard methods, it is difficult to compare them to each other. In this research we advance a methodology involving a computer-based Turing Tournament in which data from emulators (computer programs designed to ''act like human subjects'' in repeated 2 person games) and data from human subjects are compared by detectors (computer programs designed to separate human from emulator data). The winning detector is the one best able to sort humans from emulators. The winning emulator is the one best able to fool the best detector. Unlike other tournaments, this is not one program playing another to win a game. The idea, after all, is not to be better than humans but to be exactly like humans. One of the broad benefits from this activity will be the creation of a publicly available test-bed in which researchers can test their models of behavior against true human behavior, and in which researchers can test the efficacy of their methodologies to detect non-human behavior.