Bots Are Passing The Turing Test. Here's Why That's a Problem | Answers with Joe

The Turing Test was created to see if a computer or machine could pass itself off as a human. It was created by Alan Turing, a computer pioneer who was way ahead of his time.

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The Turing Test was based off of a popular party game of the time called The Imitation Game, where players go into separate rooms and try to pass themselves off as the other player. Only in the Turing Test, one of the players is a machine.

It's often referred to when talking about artificial intelligence and machine consciousness, though in its classic form, it's not meant to determine intelligence or consciousness, but only if it could imitate human intelligence.

Today, robots like Sophia from Hanson Robotics, chat bots like ELIZA, and Twitter bots have the ability to fool people into thinking they're real. What implications this has for the world in a time when most people get their news from social media is concerning.

[AshNinjas]

I saw someone say "I'm less worried about robots passing a Turing Test, than I am of one intentionally failing it" DEEP

[GeographyCzar]

YAS!! Crows are, "crazy-smart"! I once watched four of them play a game of hiding an object in new snow and then see who could find it first. The game had RULES. All the crows knew the rules, and how to enforce them. Whichever crow found the object was the one who hid it for the next round. The #1 rule was, no standing too close while the hider was hiding the object. If a seeking crow got too close, the hider would hold up the object until he stepped back in line with the other seeking crows, then he would hide it. The hiding crow would shift his beak around under the snow, so the other three could never be sure exactly where the object was hidden. When s/he was done, the hider crow would step back and let the other three dive in and try to guess where the object was. I watched them repeat this over and over.

[jessemoss]

"I wanna make a humanoid robot that's not creepy. I know, I'll make the back of it's skull clear."

[nikhilmalik]

"Any robot truly smart enough to pass a Turing test, would be smart enough to fail a Turing test" famous quote that sounds alarmist but makes sense.

[jx]

"Can she vote?"
Well, that shouldn't be a problem in saudi arabia.

[icedragonaftermath]

Thank you so much for acknowledging that Turing DID NOT propose the Turing test as a means of determining if a computer was conscious.

[digitalnomad]

"We're not talking about that kind of intelligence"
There is no scientific evidence, or philosophical argument that consciousness is a kind of intelligence. The ideas are separable. Alexa is rather intelligent, but nobody is talking about her civil rights. And on the other end C.S. Lewis said "I am angry when you kick my dog, not because I think he is intelligent, but because I think he is conscious."

[JaceKensut]

Sofia. The "Female" AI that has more rights in Saudi Arabia then actual Saudi women

[Walter-wosz]

The Turing test may be why so many of our politicians only give interviews with preapproved questions.

[JosephFuller]

*Joe, * the first historical computer programmer was _Ada Lovelace_ and in the modern era lets not forget about _Admiral Grace Hopper, _ who created the first modern programming language, FLOW-MATIC, and whose work paved the way towards the COBAL language, which is still in use today! She is widely recognized as the first modern programmer amongst people that have studied high-level programming languages.

[lumpyfishgravy]

As long as we're talking about Twitter, the notion of "intelligence" can be dispensed with.

[TheAlmightyCon]

"The world has finally caught up to Alan Turing." what a beautiful statement

[ajtrvll]

You are wise to use "probably" with Betty White.

[mad_gamer]

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a man ahead of his time.

[UncleMuin]

What worries me are all the humans that cannot pass the Turing Test.

[christopherhall]

"Hey I know you helped deal with the Nazis and all, but this whole you being gay thing is not cool..."
-Humanity's Self-importance

[marccolten]

My theory is that Musk's space car has a corpse at the wheel. The perfect crime.

[starvalkyrie]

This guy clearly doesn't know how hard Betty White likes to party

[sam]

"My Name is Connor, I am the Android Sent by Cyberlife"

[JohnathanJWells]

Alan Turing didnt invent algorithms people. They were already a thing.
He created the concept of a computer with abstract memory, which Von Neumann used to create a machine that could actually apply that concept.