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Isn't that the turing test? I'm excited about the potential of passing it in my lifetime.
by whataretensors 8y ago
Isn't that the turing test? I'm excited about the potential of passing it in my lifetime.
- omarforgotpwd 8y agoYeah, that would certainly be exciting but we're a long way off from that. The Google Duplex stuff we saw only covered a very narrow domain (taking reservations, etc). And that's not even released yet, and there's no telling when it really will be ready. Nobody even really knows how you would structure an artificial general intelligence at this point... last I heard.
- apk17 8y agoI'm not. When that happens it means many of us (basically everybody between a keyboard and a chair) are out of a job. 'Dear turing test candidate, how would a program to do this and that look like.' Or 'business strategy'.
- whataretensors 8y agoIt's the start of a post scarcity society. I'll take the not having to work and having a cure for every disease route of history, even if it's bumpy. There are real threats to the transition though. My honest fear is that the people who discover it make themselves immortal gods and subjugate or kill everyone else.
- apk17 8y agoIHMO post-scarcity could have started long ago. The problem will be that the people out of a jobs can't think of something new to do, at least not as fast as the machines (or the people with the machines). Subjugation already happens. When it's easier to keep the population poor and just raid the natural ressources of a country, that's the way it often goes.