Click, click, clickity-click, click.

I’m in!

My point was only that the Turing Test was not invented by Alan Turing, it was made up based on misunderstood remarks he made. But more than that, the principle is the same as saying a convincing sales pitch means a good product.

Nothing they say is more than PR; no person, thing or idea matters except increasing profits.

Not sure how you define getting “hung up” but there are tons of poorly informed people who believe/fear that AI is about to take over/conquer/destroy/whatever the world because they think LLMs are as smart as humans - or just a few tweaks away. It’s less about the word “intelligence” than about jumping from there to collateral issues, like thinking LLMs are “persons” that deserve rights, that using them without their consent is slavery, and other nonsense. Manipulative people take advantage of this kind of ignorance. Knowledge is good, modern superstition is bad.

Martha Wells… cool, thanks!

“Honey, did you leave the stove on?”

“I don’t think so. It’s probably the pans in the sink.”

For your crimes against rodentkind, Rat Court sentences you to a handstand in the Chamber of Death.

Just realized I don’t think I’ve been sick since I had COVID three and a half years ago.

PUNY HUMANS, I HAVE BECOME IMMORTAL !!!

GAME OVER - YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY.

Could you stop by my office? Bring your cardkey.

If “not have” means abort, I don’t think it’s ever wrong not to have a baby. People should only have kids if they want them and can commit to being good parents for the long haul. “Maybe it will save our marriage” and “God says so” are equally shitty examples of reasons to have kids.

Brilliant thought experiment. I never heard of it before. It does seem to describe what’s happening - if only there were a way to turn it into a meme so modern audiences could understand it.

Yes I think that’s generally what Alan Turing meant - he was careful not to define what “intelligence” means, and was discussing practical perception of machine behavior.

Oh you’re right, I should have said “mean” instead of “average”. Average and mean used to be the same but the definition of “average” has changed through misuse.

Technically Al Gore discovered Poland in the late 90s but cartographers were still catching up.

Make a Molotov cocktail outta that stuff and you could level Moscow! Running away fast enough is a problem.

Wonderful news, everyone!

Eliza, a chatbot psychiatry emulator written in the 1960s, convinced many people it was a real person.

Various versions of Eliza are online - including this quaint, retro looking one

That’s essentially the media-generated Turing Test, but in truth no such test was ever defined by Alan Turing. For me the modern takeaway is don’t extrapolate anything about reality from memes.

Just saying this proactively: Half the people are dumber than the Median, not the Average.