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slideheroyesterday at 11:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

> gaslight about answers to questions like "how many r's in strawberry" or "s's in espresso".

this has been debunked too many times to bother rebutting. they struggle with those things because of the way they are.

it's completely irrelevant.


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phlakatonyesterday at 11:58 PM

If it allows you to distinguish readily between human intelligence and computer intelligence, it seems quite relevant to the question of whether computers have achieved something akin to human intelligence.

It may not be useful for anything else, but at least it can say that.

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mcphagetoday at 2:44 AM

> they struggle with those things because of the way they are. it's completely irrelevant.

I mean, they seem like fair game if you’re ever participating in a Turing Test.