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Turing did not mention a "typical individual". The question is whether it's possible to make AI which is indistinguishable from a human. Obviously, it makes sen
by killerstorm 4y ago
Turing did not mention a "typical individual". The question is whether it's possible to make AI which is indistinguishable from a human. Obviously, it makes sense if an interrogator comes prepared if we want to test this.
- gopher_space 4y agoWe had AI indistinguishable from a bored teen who isn't really into the conversation decades ago. It's also really easy to pass a turing test if your model is a pissed off friend who won't respond to your texts. Who are we trying to talk to, I wonder?
- killerstorm 4y agoWell, Turing explicitly formulated it as a _game_, and for a game to be meaningful, players have to understand rules and have a desire to win. And given that the question was "Can machines think?", a human playing the game should have a good thinking ability. Game with bored, disinterested players would be entirely meaningless.
- gopher_space 4y agoIt's looking more like "how can I tell if I'm talking to a machine unless the potential person on the other end is strapped into a torture chair and forced to respond rationally to my inane philosophical ramblings." And I'd like it more as a Gedankenexperiment if people weren't talking about it as a tool or metric. That kind of thinking gains momentum.