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[–] mindbleach 3 points 8 months ago

The Turing test isn't you and a computer. It's you and a computer and a human. The goal is to figure out which one's the human, not to eyeball whether an interaction feels human-ish. You are forced to admit the computer is at least as conscious as any meatbag you interact with face-to-face.

This is especially important when thinking about proper sci-fi artificial intelligence, because it avoids Chinese Room horseshit. Really, fuck John Searle in his stupid face. The man to this day insists that yanking a CPU out of its motherboard and asking about the program it was running proves the program doesn't know anything. Changing your mind about whether something seemed intelligent, based on later finding out a computer did it, is just bigotry against computers.