<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 September 2011 06:24, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So here's a question.... which would be easier to program? The generic<br>
Turing test "I'm pretending to be SOME generic human, and you can't<br>
tell the difference" or the person specific test "I'm Paris Hilton,<br>
and you can't tell that I'm not".<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I am going to publish an article in a few weeks in <i>Divenire</i> where I defend the somewhat unusual contention that we are going first to emulate specific individuals, and that any other kind of AGIs will be developed only later as efforts to put together patchworks of actual (or hypothetical) human traits.<br>
<br>The arguments behind such assumption, albeit not very technical in nature, appear sound enough to me. <br><br>First, you have native speakers of a given language, then you generalise and establish grammatical rules obeyed by an ideal speaker thereof.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>