@fink
.) Joseph Fink @​planetoffinks.bsky.social 22h
y It turns out this whole time that the Turing
Test was the wrong way to think of it.
Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of
how good the chatbot is, but of your own
ability to think of other human beings as real
and complete people

© 12 2 120 @​ 516 eee

e Greg Stolze @​gregstolze.bsky.social 11h
I heard some professor put googly eyes on

a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI!
I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children
with their homework but my favorite is

drawing pictures!"

Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil
in half.

1/2

OD 3 ty 108 @​ 245 SOG

Greg Stolze
@​gregstolze.bsky.social

When half his college students gasped,
he said "THAT'S where all this Al

hype comes from. We're not good at
programming consciousness. But we're
GREAT at imagining non-concious things

are people."
2/2

@fink
.) Joseph Fink @​planetoffinks.bsky.social 22h
y It turns out this whole time that the Turing
Test was the wrong way to think of it.
Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of
how good the chatbot is, but of your own
ability to think of other human beings as real
and complete people

© 12 2 120 @​ 516 eee

e Greg Stolze @​gregstolze.bsky.social 11h
I heard some professor put googly eyes on

a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI!
I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children
with their homework but my favorite is

drawing pictures!"

Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil
in half.

1/2

OD 3 ty 108 @​ 245 SOG

Greg Stolze
@​gregstolze.bsky.social

When half his college students gasped,
he said "THAT'S where all this Al

hype comes from. We're not good at
programming consciousness. But we're
GREAT at imagining non-concious things

are people."
2/2