From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 17:17:12 MDT
In a message dated 13/05/02 22:13:46 GMT Standard Time,
Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com writes:
> People often make this mistake with regard to the Turing test. The Turing
> test
> is one sided. It originated because no satisfactory definition of thinking
> could be established. It was generally recognized that humans think, so if
> something could pass the Turing test, then that thing should be recognized
> as
> being able to think as well. However, failure to pass the Turing test does
> not
> establish that something cannot think. It is perfectly reasonable to
> envision
> an AI program that is self aware, and has cognitive abilities beyond any
> human,
> but does not pass the Turing test. For one thing, it may refuse to play our
> silly game.
>
> -Ken
>
I think the turing test is a perfect example of viewpoint logic. If we think
outside our 'little green world' box and contemplate the big picture. How
would our piddly little race of bipeds be seen from say, a passing super
inteligence. Would we be seen as the most inteligent thing on the planet ? or
would the massive network of purely logical beige boxes that we are slave to
come out as the planetary IQ winner ?.
Our definition of life and inteligence is very narrow minded and is
only being forced to broaden because of our advancing technology. Would it
not stand up to logical scrutiny that an advanced race may well have stopped
trying to argue the difference between Hardware and Wetware ?
Alex
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