Guess Which Worm is Real & Which is Virtual in This Turing Test That Made the Royal Society Audience Gasp Out Loud

Since folks have asked, this is the Turing test I showed at the @royalsociety on Tuesday. One of the two is the latest @OpenWorm simulation (c302+Sibernetic) replayed using @GeppettoEngine, the other is a real C. elegans. Can you tell which is which? pic.twitter.com/g65aR4E4Bl

— Matteo Cantarelli (@tarelli) February 1, 2018

Here's a cool follow-up video to last week's post on OpenWorm's presentation to the prestigious Royal Society: "This how Matteo Cantarelli's talk at the Royal Society ended with a visible gasp in the audience," Giovanni Idili‏ tells me. I like that Matteo calls it a "Turing Test", which I guess is the right way to describe a virtual simulation of a code-based worm. (Also because OpenWorm is publishing a paper in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions B, whose past contributors literally include Alan Turing.)

Anyway, make your guess, then find the correct answer after the break.

Alright alright - most of you guessed, left worm was the real one. Give us another couple of months (or years) and let's see if we can fool you 😉 https://t.co/05O1i9dkBS

— OpenWorm (@OpenWorm) February 1, 2018

That's right, the real one is left.

And Left Worm's movement is definitely more realistic than Left Shark.