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> it's unclear whether such a system is intelligent, or merely a highly generalized mimic. This seems to ignore the entire point of the Turing Test.

• dekhn 3y ago
  Precisely! I await the time when more people realize the turing test doesn't tell you anything about the underlying intelligence of the agent you're interacting with.
  • atleastoptimal 3y ago
    What's the difference then between something being intelligent and something being able to do everything something that is intelligent can but isn't intelligent?
    • dekhn 3y ago
      That's a great question! I would say that probably (but hard to prove), if something is a generalized intelligence mimic, it's probably best to treat it as intelligent, and as long as we don't have a reliable, quantitative metric for intelligence, we won't be able to say for sure. Although I was originally a solipsist, I take it as given that other humans, dogs, cats, octopuses, and a wide range of other creatures are "truly" intelligent, but I honestly have no biophysical way to test that.