Turing The Premises
It's around this time that computers start growing her on their processors.
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It's around this time that computers start growing her on their processors.
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Turing The Premises
- Thread starter The Wooster
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Looks like you 2 really wanted to have some fun with tags on this comic.
OT: Funny comic as always great way to wake up
OT: Funny comic as always great way to wake up
Can I just say that I had many, many suspicions about the Turing Test story? I have trumpeted my distrust of AI for years, after all...
Anyway, this was the first thing that popped to my head as well.
Anyway, this was the first thing that popped to my head as well.
Ehm...well, what can I say. I get it, it's a satire/stab, but...a Turing test isn't really run on such a short exchange.
So, okay for an easy laugh (I laughed!), but I hope people don't take it as a credible source about how the entire process works (because, goodness knows, this is the internet and people are just....people)
So, okay for an easy laugh (I laughed!), but I hope people don't take it as a credible source about how the entire process works (because, goodness knows, this is the internet and people are just....people)
The thing that always bothered me about the Turning Test as a metric for artificial intelligence is that I feel like many representations of sentient AI in science fiction would actually fail such a test. Fantasy AI often have stilted speech patterns and obvious distinguishing characteristics, like a lack of emotion or inability to understand human motives. They are still portrayed as sentient, but very obviously inhuman.
On the flip side, even if someone made a sufficiently complex chatbot that could mimic idle conversation and parrot back reasonable responses, that doesn't mean the program is actually "thinking" independently. Like a conversation with Cleverbot, the illusion of sentience vanishes when it eventually throws a non-sequitur and it becomes clear that the machine has no awareness behind its mimicry.
On the flip side, even if someone made a sufficiently complex chatbot that could mimic idle conversation and parrot back reasonable responses, that doesn't mean the program is actually "thinking" independently. Like a conversation with Cleverbot, the illusion of sentience vanishes when it eventually throws a non-sequitur and it becomes clear that the machine has no awareness behind its mimicry.
Alan Turing's death had its 60th anniversary three days ago. During his short life Alan Turing was discriminated against, victimised, indicted, institutionalised against his will, forced to take hormones and chemically castrated because he was homosexual. All of this in spite of his contribution to the war effort against the Nazis.
Because of the hormones he developed breasts, something he very likely didn't take well because he was a very athletic runner and tennis player before.
Also he developed a severe depression and took his own life by taking cyanide.
I don't think his legacy is served well by making a joke like "lulz, homophobic teenagers" almost on the anniversary of his death especially with the circumstances in his life.
I'm not saying this was the intention of Cory and Grey. I just would've wished for a bit more sensitivity.
Because of the hormones he developed breasts, something he very likely didn't take well because he was a very athletic runner and tennis player before.
Also he developed a severe depression and took his own life by taking cyanide.
I don't think his legacy is served well by making a joke like "lulz, homophobic teenagers" almost on the anniversary of his death especially with the circumstances in his life.
I'm not saying this was the intention of Cory and Grey. I just would've wished for a bit more sensitivity.
I'd say about 70% of the episodes of this comic don't hit for me, but every once in a while they get it right. This was definitely a good one. The heart of well-executed satire: exaggerate the ridiculous aspect of something while also playing it completely seriously.
