[ExI] The Turing Test

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed May 16 14:58:03 UTC 2018


Yeah, and superhuman abilities are one thing that I, as a Turing Tester,
would use to identify the computer. :-)

-Dave
I would quote some limericks to it and see what happens. Or double
entendres.  Or ask it to compute the square root of zero.  bill w

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:40 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:08 PM, William Flynn Wallace <
>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> *​>​Isn't the Turing test just whether people can tell it's a person or a
>>> computer?*
>>>
>>
>> ​Yes.
>>
>
> Actually, it's supposed to be a person determining which of two entities
> it's interacting with is a computer.
>
> ​> ​
>>> *It seems to this psychologist that that is a very low bar to get over.
>>> People believe what they want to believe and are easily fooled.*
>>>
>>
>> But in this case the people didn't even know they were in a test, they
>> just assumed they were talking to a human. And the machine did a better job
>> making a reservation to the Chinese restaurant than I could have done; with
>> the thick accent and elliptical phrasing I had great difficulty
>> understanding what the human was trying to say, but obviously to the
>> computer it was clear as a bell.
>>
>
> That's not a Turing Test at all.  The tester has to be actively trying to
> make that determination.
>
> ​>* ​*
>>> *I'd like to see a more meaningful test.*
>>>
>>
>>>> Like what? All Turing is saying is that we should  judge how intelligence
>> a computer is the same way we judge the intelligence of other people, by
>> behavior. And I have to say that in this case the computer demonstrated
>> more intelligence than I have because I would have been constantly saying
>> "I don't understand what you're saying please repeat it".
>>>>
>
> Yeah, and superhuman abilities are one thing that I, as a Turing Tester,
> would use to identify the computer. :-)
>
> -Dave
>
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