École des Bro-ArtsI never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
Human Brain Enthusiast@aphyr The Turing test is, pardon my language, bullshit. It’s completely subjective and actually tests how gullible people are—machines do not have intelligence, understanding, consciousness or a theory of mind.
Oggie@thomasfuchs @aphyr
It was always a thought experiment on the nature of humanity and ascribing human characteristics to deterministic systems.
Eliza passed a -lot- of turing tests!
Honestly trying to codify it always struck me as the Adams joke/example of 'performing Schrodinger's cat' (which was itself a thought experiment on how stupid and illogical quantum mechanics was)
We like to anthropromorphize EVERYTHING, and it's suddenly acquiring a dramatically steep unpleasant cost.
@Oggie @thomasfuchs @ccshan Y'all are very stuck on questions of interpretation when what I am trying to do in the piece is wrestle with the implications of ML-generated material becoming difficult for people to distinguish from human-generated material.
Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰@aphyr @Oggie @thomasfuchs Yeah I see that the way to read your one sentence that mentions the Turing test is to replace it by the sentence "ML-generated material has become difficult for people to distinguish from human-generated material", even though that doesn't have the emotional punch of "oh I thought passing the Turing test was a good thing"