Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
by zuminator on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:42AM
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The Turing Test isn't meant to be an objective test of GAI. It's meant to replace a question that might be too vague or philosophically contentious to be answerable, "Can machines think?" with an answerable one, "Can a machine successfully fool a person into thinking it's a person?" So a robot bird that fools real birds arguably has passed the Avian Turing Test. (Also, arguably the Turing Test is by definition subjective.)
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Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
by avgcorrection on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:02AM
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> The Turing Test isn't meant to be an objective test of GAI. It's meant to replace a question that might be too vague or philosophically contentious [snip]
Correct in that that was what Turing intended. But the vulgar interpretation of it makes it out to be more than it really is.
For Pete’s sake: two years ago I even saw a psychologist who suggested that psychologists should take notes from how computer science ostensibly measures “intelligence” by the Turing Test, because it’s so “objective”. That was sad.