#The turing test

[maskleo]

Ooooh you want to tell me names of videogames with ai's /rogue ai's sooooo badly ooooo

(specially ones that are like event [0], buddy simulator 1984, Observation and The Turing Test)

please, or just rogue ai's in general I need more pls.

I'll tag the ones I know of hold on.

[do-you-know-this-dw-story]

the turing test (novel: 2000)

[theeighthdoctoradventures]

What is Tumblr’s EDA Ranking?

the EDA ranking tournament you’ve not been waiting for! this is not an elimination bracket! this is to determine a ranking of 1st to 73rd place.

ROUND TWELVE: POLL EIGHT

History 101 by Mags L. Halliday

vs…

The Turing Test by Paul Leonard

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Could you pass the turing test? Would you ever want to for some reason?

Sure, I guess I could take one if someone wanted me to. In fact, I have some thoughts about the philosophical implications of a conscious turing machine.

[redhatmeg]

I've realized some time ago that puzzle game with robots is a genre that has surprisingly a lot of examples.

I know that some of those options might go into horror, postapo or adventure game, but they have kinda similar feel, you know?

[crystalromana]

Smith, Dr John X (editor) (???? ­????). A wanderer and philosopher, lost in the twentieth century of a human civilisation that he doesn’t think is his any more, because two hearts beat in his chest, and two minds run in his brain, or maybe more than two, stretching away into a very strange distance. Lacking memory of his past, he possesses nonetheless self-knowledge, and a terrible understanding of the world which, sometimes, he just can’t bear. He is waiting for the year 2001, which is when something new is going to happen to him, according to the piece of faded paper he has carried for more years than he remembers. He hopes he will be ready.

[brigittemarlt]

The man who has broken the code. Alan Turing  is one of Derek’s most memorable portrayal. Emotionally intense. Turing should have been a hero of his time. He was finally a victim of Intolerance. He has contributed to save mankind. And mankind has betrayed him. What Derek did here is more than an artistic performance. It is also a personal tribute to a great man. He has highly contributed by his talent to put Turing’s work and life into light and given him the recognition that he deserved (photo : Martha Swope)

[rosewind2007]

Murderbot would fail

[c-53]

Suddenly thinking about the turing test again,,,, that game had the coolest fucking plot twist I’ve ever seen andnl they threw that shit in at the halfway point and let you sit with the revelation and it FUCKED SO HARD. Like. Its this funny little trick it plays on you where you dont realize which character you were really playing as, and then Viscerally making you aware of your existence as a player and treating it as an infringement, an outsider reaching in and Controlling a realized human being. And then. It asks you to keep playing. While the “player character” is fully aware of what you’re doing to them

[niennanir]

I published the first chapter of The Turing Test coming up on a decade ago. It really doesn't seem like that long and I'm still humbled and amazed at how it's resonated with fandom. I've been writing fanfiction for roughly forty years now and publishing for most of that time. I've had popular stories before, I've just never had one with this sort of power and longevity.

This was not the story I thought I was writing in June of 2014. It was a response to a popular topic of conjecture at that time about whether or not JARVIS was an artificial intelligence or an artificial life form. Most of the debate revolved around trying to explain the difference and as a tech professional I have a firm grounding. It seemed like a fun exercise. It went entirely off the rails.

A decade later I've circled back to these same themes in Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century to comment on all the things I didn't have a chance to expand on the first time. It makes me wonder what I'll find inspiring in 2033.

I'm so proud, and so pleased that so many of you have loved Jarvis and Bryn so much. And I hope you'll come along for as long as the ride lasts.

[xboxlr]

Are we?

“The Turing Test”

[laurapalmersdiary]

hey siri can nintendogs feel sad

[theeighthdoctoradventures]

What is Tumblrs EDA Ranking?

the EDA ranking tournament you’ve not been waiting for! this is not an elimination bracket! this is to determine a ranking of 1st to 73rd place.

ROUND TWO: POLL SEVEN

Unnatural History by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman

vs…

The Turing Test by Paul Leonard

- this is just for fun! all pairings were randomly generated by a ranking website

- you can leave propaganda in notes and reblogs

- no books will be eliminated

- this is absolutely not a perfect way of ranking, i can't be bothered to think any harder about this

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Enough asking about whether you can pass the Turing test. I want to know if you can fail it.

Why are so many people on tumblr so obsessed with pigeons?

I really don't know. Pigeons always struck me as people, or perhaps the equivalent of people, and as a young child I used to have a special affection for them, but I guess that is because I associate them with my early exposure to the concept of "birds." Also, birds are small enough that I can imagine what I imagine they're thinking, so if they can talk to me that well, I am at least somewhat inclined to believe they can talk to each other. This may be just me.

These pigeons belong to a friend of mine who keeps them in a small park near his apartment. They are friendly enough, even if a little aloof, and they are always looking for treats. (They aren't tame, at least not fully -- if you try to pet them, they'll just stand there stiffly like some sort of Victorian cartoon character and look mildly offended.) And they know a lot of words, so my friend had to develop an amusing system for me in which if I want to ask for something, I say "Hello, my friend the pigeon," in a pleasant voice, then I shout "DELICIA!" and throw a piece of candy in the air. The pigeons understand this and often come over to try to get my attention as I say it, and then when they get enough candy they'll bring it to me, and thus I can ask for things. A lot of times I get something like "can you go pick up some more of these pieces of candy from the store?" and they'll say something back to me, and I can say "DELICIA!" and the pigeons will go do that. There's a whole repertoire of these "questions" and answers and so on.

I'm sure I'm not alone in having these sorts of interactions. In fact, it's not unusual for a lot of people who talk to their pets in this way to become obsessed with them, and I think it's only natural -- "birds are small enough that I can imagine what I imagine they're thinking, so if they can talk to me that well they can talk to each other." I don't have many thoughts on whether these sorts of "interactions" constitute the experience of "communication" but that's my own issue. I don't even think it's a particularly controversial one.

[alchemisoul]

Why do I suffer so?

That's a broad question. A vague question. But an ever-relevant question.

Have you brought it upon yourself or has it manifested upon you in an unsolicited and unwarranted manner? In my experience, it's been a mixture of both. Often the suffering we bring upon ourselves is the most unnecessary aside from that which we bring onto others which is the most regrettable.

Suffering is relative.

We should examine suffering in the same way we would differentiate between absolute and relative poverty. We should first consider the sort of suffering that those who, for example, were raised in the global north in the western hemisphere on either side of the Atlantic in the late 20th century - Present as compared to every other human who has ever existed before us or is currently living elsewhere and enduring different struggles. COVID was but a taste of the struggles others deal with every day, all the time. It cannot be understated how sheltered and spoiled we are compared to those who came before us and those whose location and experiences today are not that of our own. See the average lifespan expectancy of humans in 1900 compared to those in 1950, and again with those in Present-day in the United States alone for a bit of perspective.

Some suffering is a necessary and a part of life. Sometimes personal, self-inflicted, suffering makes us stronger and conditions us to bend but not break. Sometimes it's unnecessary and we suffer from things outside of our control at the hands of others. Sometimes that makes us stronger as well but the unnecessary and unwarranted suffering through abuse and violence brought onto ourselves and others by others, or that which we bring onto others, is the most intolerable and unforgivable. And this type of suffering is the kind that should keep us up at night.

The Black Mirror anthology (BBC/Netflix) does an amazing job of exploring the potential nightmares of what sort of suffering is possible via cloning and artificial intelligence in three episodes "White Christmas", "U.S.S Callister", and "Black Museum" (which I wouldn't recommend watching until you’ve watched all of the others). The social commentary and ethical questions posed in those episodes were sometimes overlooked or not always taken seriously as they should be. They are, again, ever-relevant. And I've thought about them quite a bit.

I bring this up to emphasize how the ability and capacity to experience suffering is arguably the most intuitive and compelling power we have for gaging what it is real. You may hear people say that time and space or our reality at large, for example, is an illusion - and you might even hear them expand on this with some salient points to demonstrate the soundness and deepness of these arguments. And maybe in some sense, these are true statements.

And yet there is nothing more real, no greater proof of reality, than the pain endured in the moment of suffering. Time is never more eternal than it is within the moment of suffering. And because anyone who has truly suffered, intuitively understands this to be true - we should give a bazillion fucks about the suffering of others and for the suffering of any and all sentient beings.

The Turing test is used to gage the capacity of a machine to exhibit equivalent to, or indistinguishable, intelligence of that of a human. "The Enduring Test", as I would have it, would measure a digital clone or replicants, capacity for suffering to an equal or indistinguishable extent as humans or biological lifeforms generally speaking.

At that point, we should give as many fucks about the suffering of artificial intelligence as we do for our own and should for that of others - the thought of crossing this technological Rubicon and for that possibility to be crystallized into reality should be absolutely terrifying to anyone with a pulse and a spine.

What good comes from, for what purpose is there, suffering? The only utility I can offer you is the idea that enduring suffering and seeking to avoid future suffering triggers what Colin Wilson refers to as "the peak experience". In these moments, we become most alive and are awoken out of the "robot" programming and cultural sedation that comes with a life where the core elements of survival are in many ways taken care of for us.

The generations preceding us had less and less time to suffer from the worries that plague us today. They had to find food, water, and shelter and avoid rival tribes and empires coming to sack their cities and forcing them to submit to worshiping a new God, renouncing their old ones, or be burned at a stake - or forcing them into slavery or killing the men and raping the women and eventually wiping them off the face of the earth. Conquests didn't begin with Colonialism. Colonialism was Conquests plus Ships. This happened everywhere. Our ancestors had different problems. At the very least, those individuals knew what it was to be fully alive at all times.

[recently-reanimated]

I think a lot of people put to much faith in "AI" because they think it actually thinks but it can't because it's a Chinese room.

Whats a Chinese room? I'm glad you asked because I'm now going to derail this post to talk about it. Imagine there is a man standing in a room with a book and then someone slips a note under the door. The note, has a picture of a triangle on it. So the man flips open the book and it says "if sent triangle send back square". This book the man has, has infinite combinations of symbols. It might have "if sent triangle, square, circle, send back diamond, rectangle, oval. Now completely unbenonced to this man he is actually writing in a language. There is someone on the other side of the door getting sent back perfect responses to the notes they write in and thinks they are having conversation with someone when in actuality it's a guy who doesn't know he is speaking a language at all let alone what language it is. I used a made up shape language to explain but you could theoretically do this in Chinese, hence the name The Chinese Room.

Now this was created as a thought experiment to show how something could pass the Turing Test without actually having consciousness. However if you're a normal person with no patience for thought experiments you're probably yelling "that would never work, language is too complicated, it would make mistakes" and you are correct, that's what's happening with Chat GPT. If you showed the man in the chinese room the sentence "circle, square, triangle" and asked him which symble is a verb, he can't tell you because even though he wrote it he has no idea what any of it means. Chat gpt can't tell you how many n's are in mayonnaise because it's doesn't know what the letter n is, and there isn't a response it can easily copy and paste from somewhere else. You can ask Dali "make a picture of a house in the woods" and it will but you can't say, "make this same picture with a blue house" because it doesn't actually know what part of the picture is the house.

Ai isn't a search engine, it's a pretend to be human engine.