On 8/16/2013 8:04 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:42 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>
wrote:
When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Are we getting close? Here is
what the CEO of Google says: “Many people in AI believe that we’re close to
[a computer passing the Turing Test] within the next five years,” said Eric
Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google, speaking at The Aspen Institute on July
16, 2013.
It could be. Five years ago I would have said we were a very long way from
any computer passing the Turing Test, but then I saw Watson and its
incredible performance on Jeopardy. And once a true AI comes into existence
it will turn ALL scholarly predictions about what the future will be like
into pure nonsense, except for the prediction that we can't make predictions
that are worth a damn after that point.
I don't really find the Turing Test that meaningful, to be honest. My
main problem with it is that it is a test on our ability to build a
machine that deceives humans into believing it is another human. This
will always be a digital Frankenstein because it will not be the
outcome of the same evolutionary context that we are. So it will have
to pretend to care about things that it is not reasonable for it to
care.
I agree, and so did Turing. He proposed the test just as a was to make a small testable
step toward intelligence - he didn't consider it at all definitive. Interestingly the
test he actually proposed was to have a man and a computer each pretend to be a woman, and
success would be for the computer to succeed in fooling the tester as often as the man.
Brent
I find it a much more worthwhile endeavour to create a machine that
can understand what we mean like a human does, without the need to
convince us that it has human emotions and so on. This machine would
actually be _more_ useful and _more_ interesting by virtue of not
passing the Turing test.
Telmo.
John K Clark
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