Charlie StrossFeb 22

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Insofar as currently-marketed AI is all about passing the (as currently understood) Turing test, and as spam filters are all about excluding machine-generated solicitations from our media inputs, it follows that ...

The single task generative AI is good for is producing spam.

Show threadHeliopolitanFeb 22
@cstross The Turing Test was always a pile of pants.
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 22

@heliopolitan The Turing Test originated as the "imitation game" in this paper from 1950, and it's *fascinating* to consider (a) Turing's socio-cultural myopia, and (b) how wildly the TT subsequently mutated in the popular imagination:

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf

Show threadHeliopolitan
@cstross it's perhaps a slighyly tangential example of how when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful metric...
Feb 22 at 2:24pmWeb