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FfejLtoday at 3:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

Turing was half right. Pass his test and you haven't proven a machine can think — you've proven it can make us think it does. That's a far more dangerous thing to have built.


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skybriantoday at 6:58 PM

People have dumbed down the Turing Test. The original was a party game like Werewolf/Mafia.

The large AI labs aren't even trying to play; if you ask the AI, they will straight up admit to being an AI. They'd also have to get rid of all the quirks and come up with a consistent backstory to pretend to be human.

ameliustoday at 3:44 PM

At least we're not thinking that it is God. Is there a name for that test?

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idiotsecanttoday at 3:37 PM

That was always what the turning test was, even according to turing ...