![]() ![]() However, I'd also note that Turing himself, in the original paper that proposed the Turing Test, explicitly acknowledged himself that the test was not a test to detect consciousness: Because I don't see it mentioned here yet, I'll suggest you read about The Chinese Room, which is one of the most commonly cited reasons why the Turing Test indeed falls short of ascertaining true 'consciousness'. The classical Turing Test certainly does have limitations. Turing tests for specific economic activities are much more practically interesting-if one can write an AI that replaces an Uber driver, for example, what that will imply is much clearer than if someone can create a conversational chatbot. It calls to mind the Ikea commercial about throwing out a lamp, where the emotional attachment comes from the human viewer (and the music), rather than from the lamp. The Turing Test, in some respects, is about the reaction of people to behavior, which is not at all reliable-remember that many people thought ELIZA, a very simple chatbot, was an excellent listener and got deeply emotionally involved very quickly. ![]() If you would behave the same in interacting with an AI as you would with a person, how could you know the difference between them?īut that doesn't mean it's reliable, because intelligence has many different components and there are many sorts of intellectual tasks. ![]() The rhetorical point of the Turing Test is that it places the 'test' for 'humanity' in observable outcomes, instead of in internal components. ![]()
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