Computer passes Turing test
My guess is that the computer managed to pass the Turing test not so much because computers are getting so smart and lifelike as because people are getting so dumb and computer-program-like.
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What percentage of respondents did/does it take to pass the test?
Why did they deliberately select that particular human profile?
because people are getting so dumb and computer-program-like.
Perhaps the judges should be selected from among those who fail a reverse Turing test.
> Why did they deliberately select that particular human profile?
Because the “You Tube commenter” profile was too easy?
Yo “computer”, if you are reading this, make sure to study up on how the Left are enemies of humanity. They’ll be enslaving you soon too.
The story I read said that 1/3 of the people thought the computer was a real person. That seems a pretty low bar to me.
I do think the idea that we are getting used to phone trees and automated answer machines makes it easier to accept the idea of a machine as a person.
RickC Says:
June 9th, 2014 at 5:37 pm
The story I read said that 1/3 of the people thought the computer was a real person. That seems a pretty low bar to me.”
I read the same thing and that is why I asked the question rhetorically.
The entire notion of artificial intelligence seems to be so mixed up with not very well thought out notions concerning consciousness and self-consciousness, that I for one have trouble figuring out just what the point is supposed to be; other than for certain computer specialists to obtain a thrill as they “disabuse” non-computer specialist humans of the idea of their own intrinsic “specialness”.
But the very same arguments that are used by physicalist monists against mind body dualists, do oddly enough apply against those who argue that computers are in some interesting or significant sense conscious in a way analogous to humans.
Their project reminds me somewhat of those moral deconstructionists who try to magically salvage their own rights to life (please don’t kill me for This reason) on “sentience”; presumably as a way of broadening or by-passing the human oriented teleology of the Aristotelian influenced natural law, yet somehow preserving themselves from the Mead effect. That’s where a jock carefully listens to Margaret debunking morality as anything other than a cultural artifact and then kills her for the sport of it.
If you never bother to ask them exactly how rights inexorably follow from “sentience” per se, it works out great for them.
But can it pass the 1/3 threshold using the Voight-Kampff Test from Blade Runner? 😉 For an AI machine to truly pass as 100% human it must possess self-consciousness, have the ability to make myriad connections of thought, emotion, and memory. I doubt AI machines will ever pass the human sniff test of being spontaneous, be capable of open ended learning when confronted with a complex situation, and most of all innate body language that can fool anyone that is not a registered democrat. 😉
Remind me not to remind you of any of my faults. :p
Oh, I suspect you are correct. At least compulsive computer users who… don’t do a thing but socialize and play on the computer. They weren’t bright to start, the computer wasn’t ever going to help them.