[ExI] Future AI Swarm Intelligence

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> The Turing test was where an observer could not tell if the entity on
> the other end was a computer or a person. By that standard, I don't think
> the test has been passed. At least, I think I could tell an AI from a
> human. The AIs are polite and just nicer than real humans.*
>

*These days for an AI to pass the Turing Test it would have to pretend to
be stupider, less well-informed, slower and nastier than it really was. *

*John K Clark*









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> Keith
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> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 1:40 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:56, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 9:54 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *> People always overestimate short-term development, and underestimate
>>> long-term development.*
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>> *Perhaps not always. 10 years ago most people, even most computer
>> experts, thought that a machine passing the **Turing Test** was
>> centuries in the future if it ever happened at all, but just 5 years later
>> we were looking at it in our rearview mirror. *
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>> *John K Clark*
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>> Perhaps we need to readjust our concept of 'long-term'. These days 5
>> years probably is long-term.
>> ---
>> Ben
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