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Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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“What’s bigger Scotland or a toaster?” Show me an AI that can answer stuff like that

GPT-2 can do it perfectly well. --- The following is a dialogue between me, the interviewer, and KnowledgeBot, an AI search engine that always gives the right answer, explaining its thinking clearly enough for a human to understand. Q: When is a door not a door? A: This is a well-known pun. I remember the answer: "When it's ajar". This is a pun on "ajar", a state that a door can be in, and "a jar", an object that is…

>GPT-2 doesn't have a concept of self, so it constructs plausible in-character excuses instead.

Spookily similar to the confabulations (made by the left hemisphere in the brain?[0]) that people with brain damage often use to deny/rationalize their deficits (even denying paralysis sometimees!).[1]

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27484245/

1: https://youtu.be/ymKvS0XsM4w?t=141

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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post #3

“What’s bigger Scotland or a toaster?” Show me an AI that can answer stuff like that

GPT-2 can do it perfectly well. --- The following is a dialogue between me, the interviewer, and KnowledgeBot, an AI search engine that always gives the right answer, explaining its thinking clearly enough for a human to understand. Q: When is a door not a door? A: This is a well-known pun. I remember the answer: "When it's ajar". This is a pun on "ajar", a state that a door can be in, and "a jar", an object that is…

Is this real? If so, can you direct me to any quick resources to play around with this? I have only surface-level theoretical knowledge about machine learning or AI. But this looks fascinating and makes me want to learn more.

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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> Passing the Turing Test is not a sensible goal for Artificial Intelligence yes, but I never understood it as that. I thought it was more a philosophical thought experiment about humans and a reply to people who don't/didn't believe in (strong) AI. "You think humans are intelligent and have conciousness - but how do you know that another person has that?"

> "You think humans are intelligent and have conciousness - but how do you know that another person has that?"

That was more the point of the “Chinese room” thought experiment.

I always understood the Turing test to be the ultimate form of “When computers can do , they can be considered to be truly intelligent.” to put an end to all other such definitions which had been previously put forward as possibile criteria for machine intelligence.

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT-2 can do it perfectly well. --- The following is a dialogue between me, the interviewer, and KnowledgeBot, an AI search engine that always gives the right answer, explaining its thinking clearly enough for a human to understand. Q: When is a door not a door? A: This is a well-known pun. I remember the answer: "When it's ajar". This is a pun on "ajar", a state that a door can be in, and "a jar", an object that is…

>GPT-2 doesn't have a concept of self, so it constructs plausible in-character excuses instead. Spookily similar to the confabulations (made by the left hemisphere in the brain?[0]) that people with brain damage often use to deny/rationalize their deficits (even denying paralysis sometimees!).[1] 0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27484245/ 1: https://youtu.be/ymKvS0XsM4w?t=141

You can test self-awareness, if you can test if the program knows it will halt.

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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Am I the only one that hates this incredibly overused title trope? Come up with something vaguely original.

Nope, it's really annoying at this point. Try doing a search on Google Scholar for "considered harmful" -"go to statement considered harmful".

"About 53,000 results."

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT-2 can do it perfectly well. --- The following is a dialogue between me, the interviewer, and KnowledgeBot, an AI search engine that always gives the right answer, explaining its thinking clearly enough for a human to understand. Q: When is a door not a door? A: This is a well-known pun. I remember the answer: "When it's ajar". This is a pun on "ajar", a state that a door can be in, and "a jar", an object that is…

Is this real? If so, can you direct me to any quick resources to play around with this? I have only surface-level theoretical knowledge about machine learning or AI. But this looks fascinating and makes me want to learn more.

Two sites:

https://transformer.huggingface.co/, which lets you cherry-pick the responses (but I didn't; I only discarded one autocompletion).

https://app.inferkit.com/demo, which I used for the prose completion – but it turns out that this is Megatron-11b (at time of writing), not GPT-2, so that's misleading.

Re: Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

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“What’s bigger Scotland or a toaster?” Show me an AI that can answer stuff like that

GPT-2 can do it perfectly well. --- The following is a dialogue between me, the interviewer, and KnowledgeBot, an AI search engine that always gives the right answer, explaining its thinking clearly enough for a human to understand. Q: When is a door not a door? A: This is a well-known pun. I remember the answer: "When it's ajar". This is a pun on "ajar", a state that a door can be in, and "a jar", an object that is…

To be fair it didn’t know how to answer until you told it how to answer.
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