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The Turing Test, enshrined by the public and media as THE test of machine intelligence, really isn't. (www.thenewatlantis.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Computer pioneer Alan Turing's remarks in 1950 on the question, "Can machines think?" were misquoted, misinterpreted and morphed into the so-called "Turing Test". The modern version says if you can't tell the difference between communicating with a machine and a human, the machine is intelligent. What Turing actually said was that by the year 2000 people would be using words like "thinking" and "intelligent" to describe computers, because interacting with them would be so similar to interacting with people. Computer scientists do not sit down and say alrighty, let's put this new software to the Turing Test - by Grabthar's Hammer, it passed! We've achieved Artificial Intelligence!

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

oh come on

people are in denial that their way of life - getting paid for intellectual output - is coming to an end. it's not the case that AI just produces slop. surely it does but so do a lot of humans. you know all the memes about human workers having imposter syndrome - feeling as if they don't even really know what they're doing? AI only has to produce higher quality output than them. and it definitely can.

the reason why people shit on AI so hard is because they're afraid - afraid that AI will "out-compete" them. in that sense, you could also call it "jealous", like a woman fears she's replaced by another woman.

people need to respect themselves and others enough to agree to survive - and thrive, even - in the absence of a productive output. in other words, only if you can allow your fellow humans a living income without work, you are truly in a position where you can live comfortably in the future.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I don't entirely disagree with the comic at the end; but given the current systems in place I doubt the robots will be used to support the masses and rather enrich the few.

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