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Oct 14, 2008 16:27

The AI test results are in. Elbot came out on top.

A friend of mine, the one who fears the robot insurrection, helpfully pointed out to me that the Turing Test is a bad idea, “because its premise is to fool the humans, which is not something we want to teach our future predators.”
This hadn’t occurred to me, mostly because it doesn’t make complete sense, and partly because I have an unnatural bias toward robots and AI.

A colleague of mine once stated that a true, and significantly advanced, AI test would be to feed the same exact data into two machines of the same design and wait for each machine to produce different results.
This would be close to how humans operate.
We have the incredible and dubious ability to… I guess I’ll say, interpret data.

The University of Texas at Austin studied how “Individuals who lack control seek to find and impose order in the world through superstition.”

Exhibit A (which of course is false)

There are of course more obvious examples, however they aren’t quite as current and therefore have become a bit more unshakable.
The trouble then becomes reasoning the AI out of its superstition, especially if it is producing negative results.

pattern recognition, robots, turing test, ai, elbot

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