[ExI] People often think their chatbot is alive

[Dave S]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 2:14 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> If you'd asked Turing or any of his contemporaries, they'd have figured
> computers had hit human IQ with minmaxing gametrees that could play a
> competent game of chess.
>

No way! Turing would have been impressed, of course, but he was no fool and
wouldn't have equated that with human-level intelligence.

And again when they could pick out a moving car on a video feed and draw
> graphics around it in real time.
>
> And again when they could take short verbal cues and write coherent essays.
>
> And again when they could take short verbal cues and synthesize competent
> art.
>
> I'm not sure how much farther the goal posts can plausibly move.
>

We may be at the point where a chatbot could pass a Turing test. An AI
could probably score above average on an IQ test. I think it's safe to say
that we've achieved AI as it was originally intended.

The next goal may be sentience but I'm not sure how we can determine that.

-Dave
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