#turingtest — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #turingtest, aggregated by home.social.
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"Turing’s test remains intriguing, but there is a longstanding difficulty: the fallibility of the judge. A primitive 1960s chatbot, Eliza, responded like a parody of a therapist (“How does that make you feel?” “Why do you feel sad?” “Please go on.”). People lapped it up; it’s nice to feel listened to. A 1980s chatbot, MGonz, just fired off insults and was perfectly plausible, partly because insults are simple to deliver and mostly because they prompt rage rather than reflection in the human recipient. And Robert Epstein, an expert in the Turing Test, has written entertainingly about how he was fooled into a four-month correspondence with a sexy Russian lady who was, in fact, a 2006-era chatbot. None of these bots had a thousandth of the sophistication of a modern LLM, but they didn’t need it: when humans are sad, angry or amorous, we aren’t very sophisticated judges, either.
We are all going to find ourselves in strange variations of the Turing Test in years to come, and I wonder if we are up to it. And not just us, but those with power over us. As Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification, is fond of observing: you won’t be replaced because an AI can do your job, you’ll be replaced because an AI salesman convinces your boss that it can. If my journey to the marathon start line is any guide, that salesman will have an easy job.
The capabilities of modern AI are impressive. But what determines whether we use it is not the capability, but the impressiveness. They are correlated but they are not the same thing."
https://www.ft.com/content/eb6f5398-6635-4938-b890-625e7c8d3af2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #LLMs #TuringTest #Enshittification
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speaking of the Torment Nexus...
...amazing how many people haven't seen the movie "Us" or did and it completely went over their head?
Humanity is failing the Turing Test
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
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Sam Altman and David Deutsch Agree on New AGI Test
Sam Altman and David Deutsch agree on a new AGI test, measured by AI’s ability to discover quantum gravity and explain its process.https://www.olamnews.com/technology/ai/2237/sam-altman-david-deutsch-new-agi-test/
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> .. heated debate.. in.. cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind, but it is hard to see that any serious question has been posed.. the #TuringTest is reminiscent of the #Cartesian approach to.. minds. But the comparison is misleading..Jacques de #Vaucanson, the great artificer of the period, was concerned to understand the animate systems he was modelling.. in order to formulate and validate theories.. not to satisfy some performance criterion.
#AISalami