Turing Test

[John Bailey]

Pynchon's 'artificial intelligences' are deeply embodied
intelligences, whose transcendent aspects are confounded by
materiality. V wants to escape the flesh and become pure object,
Vaucanson's Duck becomes an idea but loses all existence in the
material world, just as the Golem becomes a legend ever retreating
into the uncharted west and Marcel the Chessplaying automaton can only
exist in the chaos of the Zone.

These are fine ways of thinking about the ways we think about
artificial intelligence, and what they say about us. Not real
proposals for any possible future or past at all. And we have an
incredibly impressive ability to redefine what it means to be 'human'
whenever something threatens to edge onto our turf.

OK article here:

"Others worry that it's wrong to use ourselves as the benchmark of
intelligence – and that this may lead us to miss out on the discovery
of a true mega-brain. AIs – or intelligent aliens, say – that solve
problems in very different ways may be as smart as us, or even
smarter, but would fail a Turing test merely because of its
human-centric bias."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25692-no-skynet-turing-test-success-isnt-all-it-seems.html?full=true#.U5bSeCjkoxI

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Slightly misleading to the point of being bogus. This "SUPERCOMPUTER" is
> actually just a chatbot scripted to mimic conversation. Also it's a bit of a
> stinky trick to tell participants that they're talking to a 13 year-old boy
> from the Ukraine to dismiss any odd responses from the machine.
>
> Also, Robert Llewellen on the panel? Was part of the criteria for being a
> judge that you had to have played an artificial intelligence in a low budget
> BBC sci-fi comedy? Is he the gold standard? It's a funny idea for sure but
> little more than sensationalist journalism. Skynet hasn't gone online...
> yet.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/computer-becomes-first-to-pass-turing-test-in-artificial-intelligence-milestone-but-academics-warn-of-dangerous-future-9508370.html
>>
>
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