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Can we now definitively say that AI has passed the Turing test ?
by candiodari 7y ago
Can we now definitively say that AI has passed the Turing test ?
- Traster 7y agoAt best this attack used AI to create a text to speech engine whose output sounds the like the CEO in real-time. At worst it generated a number of pre-canned sentences that the scammers just replayed over the phone in the right order. There's nothing in this scam that implies the AI is in any way responsible for the actual content of the conversation.
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- purple_ducks 7y agoNo? The Turing test is "determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being" Not whether it can mimic the voice and speech patterns of one.
- TheGrumpyBrit 7y agoMaybe it was the computers idea?
- TheDong 7y agoYour definition is a little off. A computer capable of thinking like a human is "strong ai", or "general AI", or any of a few other poorly defined terms. The turing test is a poor approximation of that goal. Computers can and will pass the turing test long before they're actually capable of real human thought. Specifically, the turing test is merely having a human judge evaluate a free-form text-based conversation with a partner, and them being unable to distinguish a computer from a human in that scenario. The main thing this instance lacks is the free-form nature of the conversation. It also lacked the humans knowing that it was a test, so they didn't properly "evaluate" it regardless.
- _carl_jung 7y agoNo it isn't. The Turing test is a methodology to _try_ to "determine whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being". It actually quite famously falls down at exactly this hurdle: mimicking the natural language patterns of humans[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Weaknesses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Weaknesses