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The Turing is not about intelligence, it's about being able to credibly ape humans. You don't need to be able to credibly describe what it's like to fall from a
by pygy_ 6y ago
The Turing is not about intelligence, it's about being able to credibly ape humans. You don't need to be able to credibly describe what it's like to fall from a bike or to fall in love in order to be intelligent... But you have to in order to pass a Turing test.
The first chat bots that I remember claiming to have passed the Turing test were actually credibly dumb (mimicking a teenage, non-native English speaker with deliberate grammar mistakes to paper over misunderstandings).
- tsimionescu 6y agoThe Turing test ('the imitation game') was designed as an objective way to answer the question 'can this machine think'. The fact that it can be gamed by feigning stupidity or bad language skills is a weakness of the specifics of the test perhaps, but not the idea in principle. Instead, the idea is to have an open-ended conversation with the machine, to explore its ability to display general human-level intelligence. It's true that intelligence in general is far more broad (after all, an ant colony would not even begin to pass the Turing test, but it still possesses general intelligence in a way that no AI does yet. Building an artificial ant colony (or even 1 artificial ant that lives in a real colony) with all of the problem-solving abilities of a real one would still be a monumental achievement in AI. I think there is even hope that if we could do that, advancing to human level intelligence and beyond would be just around the corner, though that remains to be seen.
- pygy_ 6y agoInsect-level intelligence in robots would already be extremely dangerous IMO. Especially if they were equipped with reasonable models of our "fast thinking" pathways, which aren't that smart to begin with and are already easily gamed by bots on the Web.