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That’s your definite Turing test. Stamped, sealed, delivered.

• schoen 7y ago
  The Turing test as defined by Turing is interactive and conversational, not about an AI producing a particular artifact.
  • kerkeslager 7y ago
    The original Turing test had the AI attempting to imitate a woman, which is not only demonstrates conversational ability, but an understanding of complex ideas like gender. Incidentally, I think this can actually be a very low standard, depending on context. We tend to think of the Turing test as being performed by academics, in a lab, where everyone is Very Serious. But if you put real humans on i.e. Omegle (with no video), they typically type with poor grammar and say "random" sounding things that quite plausibly could be said by an AI. Additionally, the preponderance of spam scammers demonstrates that many people are quite gullible, unable to differentiate between a Nigerian scammer and a legitimate representative of their bank. Given this, I think we already passed the Turing test, not by bringing AI up to the level of humans, but by bringing humans down to the level of AI.
    • HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
      That's a fairly depressing way of looking at it. https://xkcd.com/1414 https://xkcd.com/1414
      • kerkeslager 7y ago
        That XKCD comic makes a good point: grammar ability is a poor measure of intelligence. Perhaps I was wrong to think of it as "bringing humans down".
        • umanwizard 7y ago
          Grammar ability is a fine measure of intelligence. Adherence to arbitrary conventions in situations where they’re unnecessary is, on the other hand, a poor measure of grammar ability. Do you really believe that most people who write “u” in an SMS are unaware that it’s written “you” according to formal conventions?