4 ms·

I know this is a semi-joke, but it's worth discussing. While such people are less smart than average or have a deficiency in their education or both, unless you

I know this is a semi-joke, but it's worth discussing. While such people are less smart than average or have a deficiency in their education or both, unless you're talking about mentally handicapped people with a medical diagnosis, all normal humans have a conscience, are capable of reasoning, can understand complex symbols, can entertain complex thought, are very good pattern matching machines, can speak natural language and can learn and acquire new skills, which makes them intelligent. I know the kind of people you're talking about. I have a family member like that. She's not that smart, she failed her baccalaureate, she's semi-illiterate and she probably suffers from ADHD, though a lot has to do with her upbringing. But getting answers like that from such a person means that you're not asking the right questions or the incentive to answer is not there. Give a cash reward to a cash-strapped person and you will never get an answer like "im so bored this test sux".

iopq 11y ago
Yes, but you also have a database of answers from people, so even if you ask things like "what color is the sky" you're still getting the right answer. Check out http://www.jabberwacky.com/ http://www.jabberwacky.com/ it jokes with you, it gives vulgar answers sometimes, etc. it's NOT good enough to fool someone, but what if you just made it sound like it's a person with a disability? Is that still beating the Turing test? Is talking to a "five year old" still beating the Turing test? Or does it have to be a 100 IQ adult person fluent in English? In which case that's just improving the bot a bit. To make it a funny and charming bot it would require even more effort. But it's just slowly improving the state of the art with some kind of techniques like reinforcement learning or neural networks or whatnot. When a bot actually beats the Turing test it wouldn't be big news because it would just be a slightly better jabberwacky.

iopq 11y ago

Yes, but you also have a database of answers from people, so even if you ask things like "what color is the sky" you're still getting the right answer. Check out http://www.jabberwacky.com/ http://www.jabberwacky.com/ it jokes with you, it gives vulgar answers sometimes, etc. it's NOT good enough to fool someone, but what if you just made it sound like it's a person with a disability? Is that still beating the Turing test? Is talking to a "five year old" still beating the Turing test? Or does it have to be a 100 IQ adult person fluent in English? In which case that's just improving the bot a bit. To make it a funny and charming bot it would require even more effort. But it's just slowly improving the state of the art with some kind of techniques like reinforcement learning or neural networks or whatnot. When a bot actually beats the Turing test it wouldn't be big news because it would just be a slightly better jabberwacky.