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The main philosophical effect of these chatbots is that some questions that were discussed by a minority of people for tens and hundreds of years suddenly reach
by ilyagr 4y ago
The main philosophical effect of these chatbots is that some questions that were discussed by a minority of people for tens and hundreds of years suddenly reached the popular imagination, and became interesting to vastly more people.
Suddenly, we are interested in the same questions that Turing was interested in back in 1950 when he posed his "imitation game".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
- ilyagr 4y agoAs an aside, my own opinion is that the practical implications of the existence of these chatbots are vastly more worrying than the philosophical implications.