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Variations On the Classic Turing Test

Posted by kdawson on from the climbing-out-of-the-uncanny-valley dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."

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  1. Human-ness != Intelligence by Baldrson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why are people so interested in mimicing humans? Isn't intelligence far more interesting than human-ness?

    I understand people's fear of machine intelligence exceeding that of humans, but it is actually more dangerous to have machines merely mimicing human-ness than to have machines that are intelligent enough to actually understand what we say better than another human could.

    That means more than merely having some mockery of mirror neurons for "empathy". It means genuine understanding: The ability to model.

    The reason this is central to our relationship to our machines should be obvious: Friendly AI really boils down to the problem of effectively communicating our value systems to the AIs.

    That's why natural language comprehension is the first step to friendly AI.

    HENCE:

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