Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r...
by ghurtado on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:11PM
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> Anything that's even a little bit 'meta' would confound most 'AIs'.
This is precisely why the Turing Test is so tricky for machines. Knowing the parameters, any regular human could test even the most advanced present-day AI and reveal it as a machine with very little effort and only a few questions.
> We can tell if an AI is functional in some environment or responds well to social queues by interacting with it. But not much else. Not how 'intelligent' it is for instance.
The Turing Test does not intend to determine level of intelligence (it's not an IQ test). It is intended to determine whether the intelligence you're interacting with is advanced enough to fool you into thinking they are of human nature.
It is not a test of degree of intelligence, but rather of its nature. Human / not human are the only two possible outcomes.
A not-very-bright cousin of mine has been heard responding to robo-calls. Would his opinion do?
I think 'intelligence' is ambiguous, but many parts of it can be measured to some degree. Lets give the AI the SAT test perhaps? Or a test of hypothetical arguments. Or ask it how it would tell if you were an intelligent being yourself. Anything that's even a little bit 'meta' would confound most 'AIs'.
We can tell if an AI is functional in some environment or responds well to social queues by interacting with it. But not much else. Not how 'intelligent' it is for instance.