On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 8:09 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:

> > *In case you've forgotten, the Turing test was based on text only
> communication between an interlocutor asked to distinguish between a
> computer pretending to be a human and a man or woman pretending to be a
> woman or man.*
>

Yes but that is an unimportant detail, the essence of the Turing Test is
that whatever method you use to determine the consciousness or lack of it
in one of your fellow human beings you should use that same method when
judging the consciousness of a computer.

*> It's already been passed by some LLM's by dumbing-down their response*.
>

Don't you find that fact to be compelling? An AI needs to play dumb in
order to fool a human into thinking it is human.

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> But as I said before, the Turing Test is not perfect, however it's all
> we've got. If something passes the test then it's intelligent and
> conscious. If fails the test then it may or may not be intelligent and or
> conscious
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> asb
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