2026-08-03 11:26 UTC
“The low-rez #TuringTest that captured popular discourse is profoundly misleading. It's the unsound foundation of a worldview that renders you incapable of distinguishing your understanding of your spouse from their phone's autocomplete function. It's the self-serving rationale that leads you to declare yourself a proud stochastic parrot.
…#AI
Extending rights to nature reliably makes the world better, but extending rights to constructs makes the world far worse (Exhibit A is corporate #personhood) (obviously).” @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/andor/
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@kbal@fedia.io 2026-08-03 11:57
I think the main problem with the Turing Test as implemented in the reality we have started to become apparent in the 1990s. The bots that were the most convincingly human were those that were taciturn and unresponsive in a human-like way. Mastering that was not too difficult for them but nobody was all that impressed by it. Now that they've learned some of the human art of spewing bullshit — along with some other tricks — the situation is not so different in terms of intelligence but obviously it's much more marketable.