Post #4362842
2026-08-03 08:33 UTC
AI's investor story - and the science fiction tales of AI's eventual capabilities that underpin that investor story - makes heavy use of this conjurer's trick, in which two different outcomes are equated to one another because they resemble each other.
This "ignore the journey, focus on the destination" idea is baked *very deeply* into the way we think about AI. Take the "Turing Test," a complicated and nuanced thought-experiment proposed in 1950.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:34
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. 12/