Post #4362841
2026-08-03 08:34 UTC
Over the ensuing 75 years, Turing's thought-experiment has been stripped down into a blunt metric: "Can a chatbot trick a human into thinking it is also human?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelligence
"I mistook a chatbot for a human" and "I took a human for a human" arrive at near-identical places, but they are subtly and importantly different.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:34
The erroneous assumption that my phone's autocomplete is actually a person who understands me well enough to finish my sentences works fine, but the instant I turn to it for understanding, it will fail very badly. Autocomplete's predictions are always grounded in who you *used to be*, which means autocomplete knows very little about who you are now, and absolutely nothing about who you will become: https://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/ 13/