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Everything you Want to Know About the Turing Test

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-got-a-D-on-my-turing-test dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Everything you want to know about the Turing test provided by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is their latest entry."

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  1. Re:Why? by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I do not think going down the road of AI and building machines that look and/or think like humans is a good idea. I think because of the consequences that we can not even fathom now. They say we only use 2% of our mental capacity, so what if we could build a machine that was better then ourselves? Wouldn't this lead directly to our own extinction? On a higher level of thinking this is probably a good thing, but I don't know about you but I certainty do not want to be replaced by some being that we have created.

    I mention computers because they would probably be behind the logic of these devices. Perhaps not though...

    Look at where our thinking has taken us. We have wars, plagues, hate, injustice, starvation, pollution and more.

  2. Re:Why? by phil+reed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Singularty.

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    ...phil
    "For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."