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The Turing Test was never anything but a thought experiment, developed when computers were in their infancy, and has been widely criticized by philosophers and
by krapp 3y ago
The Turing Test was never anything but a thought experiment, developed when computers were in their infancy, and has been widely criticized by philosophers and AI researchers.
It should never have been taken as seriously as it has, just as Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics should never have been taken seriously. Both presuppose rigidly and objectively defined values for, respectively, self-awareness and morality, where none exist. If anything they reveal more about human intellectual bias, popular cultural assumptions (and possibly hubris) than they do anything about AI.
The goalposts must be moved because we still don't even know what the nature of the game is.