The Turing test has shown its weakness.
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 22 hours agoAs a computer science experiment, making a program that can beat the Turing test is a monumental step in progress.
However as a productive tool it is useless in practically everything it is implemented on. It is incapable of performing the very basic “Sanity check” that is important in programming.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Time for a Turing 2.0?
If you spend a lifetime with a bot wife and were unable to tell that she was AI, is there a difference?
iglou@programming.dev 15 hours ago
The Turing test becomes absolutely useless when the product is developed with the goal of beating the Turing test.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
it was also meant as a philosophical test, but also, a practical one, because now. I have absolutely no way to know if you are a human or not.
But it did pass it, and it raised the bar. but they are still useless at any generative task
robobrain@programming.dev 21 hours ago
The Turing test says more about the side administering the test than the side trying to pass it
Just because something can mimic text sufficiently enough to trick someone else doesn’t mean it is capable of anything more than that
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
We can argue about it’s nuances. same with the Chinese room thought experiment.
However, we can’t deny that it the Turing test, is no longer a thought exercise but a real test that can be passed under parameters most people would consider fair.
I thought a computer passing the Turing test would have more fanfare, about the morality if that problem, because the usual conclusion of that thought experiment was “if you cant tell the difference, is there one?”, but now it has become “Shove it everywhere!!!”.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
Oh, I just realized that the whole ai bubble is just the whole “everything is a dildo if you are brave enough.”
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
yhea, and “everything is a nail if all you got is a hammer”.
there are some uses for that kind of AI, but very limiting. less robotic voice assisants, content moderation, data analysis, quantification of text. the closest thing to Generative use should be to improve auto complete and spell checking.