I'm beginning to suspect Turing consciously captured the moving target definition when he conceived of his famous test.
Re:Interview with Terence Tao
by crimsonalucard on Monday September 29, 2014 @12:53PM
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The Turing Test is a fixed target though.
As far as I know there are no limits on how intelligent something will get. Exploring the limits of AI is like trying to find the biggest possible number.
Re:Interview with Terence Tao
by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 29, 2014 @02:42PM
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That's true, but nowadays it's a little more like, "Well, we want a self-improving program with enough intelligence and moral fiber to radically improve human life on a scale not usually conceived of outside the Book of Isaiah."
This may be absurdly ambitious, to the point of ridicule, but it's a concretely-defined target.
For example: "In the seventies, someone might ask “what are the goals of AI?” And you might say, “Oh, we want a computer who can beat a chess master, or who can understand actual language speech, or who can search a whole database very quickly.” We do all that now, like face recognition. All these things that we thought were AI, we can do them."
This is very true.