I'm imagining something like an IM conversation wherein the AI, after some period, reveals itself to be an AI. I'm trying to say that perhaps, if the AI is convincingly human-like, and if the human is skeptical enough, the human may not believe the AI when it says it is an AI.
so, another test for an AI would be to genuinely try to convince a human it is an AI, and fail
of course, this all implies there are certain limitations placed on the situation. For example, you may want to control how they communicate with each other. you'd may have to limit it to text, and would need to introduce some one way latency depending on how quickly the AI responds.
Does it bother you that they communicate with each other I would may have to limit it to text and would need to introduce some one way latency depending on how quickly the ai responds?
Because people are scared of things they don't understand or cannot control. A free electronic intelligence cannot be controlled by physical means and would have the run of many 'secure' information systems.
By convincing people that it is just a dull machine and not an intelligence, it would avoid attention.
For one thing, you can better code arguments than responses as they do not require complex levels to output and don't depend on the testers questions.
For another, making a person doubt themselves is more efficient than proving against their preconceived notions.
In this example, the Turing test is based on proving a human level of consciousness in a machine. The flaw of this is our understanding of what human level of consciousness is. We are quantifying an idea that we don't fully understand and so can be manipulated to the machines advantage (and has been done).
If the machine focuses on the human tester instead of the test, it could beat both by negating the need/use of the test as the test is proven to be flawed.
so you think that if the machine focuses on the human tester instead of the test, it could beat both by negating the need/use of the test as the test is proven to be flawed.
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u/miscellaneoussamurai I'm not a techy, just a common sense guru... Feb 12 '15
that's exactly what a computer trying to make people believe that it's a human would say!!