[ExI] Future AI Swarm Intelligence

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *> 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.*
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> *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. *
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> Yep. And why would anyone want to do that?

Keith

*John K Clark*
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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.
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>>> Ben
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