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The Lady Lovelace argument is basically: Computer programs that can pass, pass because of hard coded rules. Therefore the computer doesn't think, it just does
by JoshCole 4y ago
The Lady Lovelace argument is basically:
Computer programs that can pass, pass because of hard coded rules. Therefore the computer doesn't think, it just does what it is told. Therefore, machines can't think. Therefore the proposed game is pointless.
My understanding of GP's post is that he is saying:
Computer programs with hard coded rules passed the test. Therefore Turing didn't anticipate that computers with hard coded rules could pass the test. Therefore Turing underestimated humans. Therefore we discuss the Turing Test less often.
Yet in Turing's paper, he addresses the Lovelace argument. He did not fail to anticipate it. This falsifies claim 2, because it is not true that Turing failed to anticipate that computer programs with hard coded rules passed the test.
I claim that GP is confusing Turing with the Turing test, because Alan Turing, inventor of the Turing machine, asked a question about whether machines - Turing machines! - could think. He explicitly addressed arguments from hard coded systems, which he likened to pianos and sub-critical systems. So his original paper currently refutes the argument structure that GP provided, because it refutes point two.
The actual issue is that Turing's test is not the Turing Test as he thought about it. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that Turing's writing refutes the result of the Turing Test being passed. Notice how Turing, in adhering to his analogy to super-criticality, he re-frames his original question, not into a hard coded accepting form, but into a hard-coding rejecting form.
We are swimming around in the waters of the world his cognition encouraged so much so that it might not be obvious, but Turing's views are now the default. Everyone tends to believe - to such an extent that I can't think of anyone I consider formidable who disagrees with the idea - that Turing machines can think if programmed to do so.