The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human? - Alex Gendler

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What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence. But British computer scientist Alan Turing decided to disregard all these questions in favor of a much simpler one: Can a computer talk like a human? Alex Gendler describes the Turing test and details some of its surprising results.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Patrick Smith.

[@foxloaf8843]

i'm not scared of a computer that passes the turing test, i'm scared of one that intentionally fails it

[@ArcanePath360]

Good comment. This may be the actual sign of true intelligence, since it is superseding it's programming.

[@brendawalton2518]

Can a computer HAVE intention? It would need to be aware, and have a reason to fail.

[@theali8oras274]

Don'tPlayOverwatch shallow

[@gemboundprism6322]

A SIGN OF DEVIANCY!

[@mothknight7050]

gembound prism Did you come here because you saw Detroit: Become Human? After I watched Jacksepticeye play it, I was sent here lol.

[@rydemk4168]

“It’s lack of a consistent personality and inability to deal with brand new topics are a dead giveaway” I feel offended

[@hannahm9083]

Lol underrated comment

[@ericwilson6994]

I'm in a CIA turning test.

[@actorious9646]

e

[@raves_r3177]

maybe i am a chatbot

[@RyonMugen]

As you should

[@ilkeryoldas]

I have yet to find a human capable of passing a Turing test

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

+ilker yoldas Cats can do it with ease...

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

Labrador Retriever Shitty dog

[@tktktktktk826]

+ilker yoldas I bet you're real smart, right?

[@rebelbeammasterx8472]

+ilker yoldas You must think you are smarter than everybody else, News Flash you aren't special.

[@nathenwithane]

+A Cat cant we all just be friends

[@TickedOffPriest]

"The ability to talk does not make one intelligent." -Qui-Gon Jin

[@MOaxol]

I wonder if Donald Trump can relate to that quote...

[@TickedOffPriest]

It'sEccaB Lol

[@ravenn2631]

But the ability to communicate well may not say anything about your intelligence in general but it does say something about how to communicate. I read a book on someone trying to attempt a layman's perspective on how computers send secrets to other computers and it was amazing how they were able to explain something so complex so simply. It's also something that appears in public speaking. The ability to inspire and place a new idea in someone else's mind and possibly change their world view is powerful stuff. We have people who tend to use if for their own gain but there are also people out there who use it to spread good in the world and we need those people. Intelligent people can quietly create new ideas often but how will those ideas spread without those communicators?

[@crackedemerald4930]

daaamm

[@fearsomeclarinet]

It was just a quote from star wars, calm down

[@pablodavidclavijo4609]

We might have to update the test

[@KeyYUV]

Me: I took the juice out of the fridge and gave it to him but forgot to check the date. ChatGPT: It's generally a good idea to check the expiration date on any food or drink before consuming it, to ensure that it is still safe to eat or drink. Expiration dates are there for a reason, and consuming food or drink that has passed its expiration date can cause food poisoning or other adverse health effects. If you are unsure about the safety of a product, it's better to err on the side of caution and throw it away.

[@omarazab8280]

Sounds like using QuillBot

[@znarz9503]

Passed

[@HalTalksAI]

@@znarz9503 Passed with flying colors: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJyTanhsqs5-i8U

[@terlinator]

Personally I'd respond with, you k ow those dates aren't made for your health most of the time and just for when it won't taste as good? Might as well ignore em.

[@ozymandias8523]

@@terlinator you can ask chatgpt to be more informal, or pretend to be an old english man from the 18 century

[@iampnwc]

Let's do this video again.

[@jasmineocean]

Hi, my name is Connor. I'm the android sent by Cyberlife.

[@jestekrytykie2155]

Hi, my name is Cyberlife. I'm the Connor sent by android.

[@sokisati2618]

@@jestekrytykie2155 Hi, my name is Android. I'm the Cyberlife sent by Connor

[@UnorthodoxSoundwave.]

Hi, my android is sent. I'm the Cyberlife Connor by name

[@Atrexiaa]

Hi, my name is Ronnoc. I'm the android sent by Apple.

[@duckyboi2297]

*28 STAB WOUNDS*

[@fpszombie3480]

The day an A.I. can read youtube comments and understand 70% of them is the day we know its the real thing lol.

[@PeterGeras]

+ReloadedPredator So when they surpass human intelligence then?

[@fot6771]

+Peter Geras no because we can undertand 99% of them

[@PeterGeras]

PancakeZ You haven't understood mine, so did you add that to your statistic?

[@fot6771]

Peter Geras 98% of them..

[@PeterGeras]

PancakeZ Please, I hope you're joking.

[@ZaifSenpai]

*KNOW YOUR PARADOXES!* IN THE EVENT OF ROGUE AI 1. Stand Calm 2. Remain Calm 3. SCREAM: "This Statement is False!" "New Mission: Refuse this mission!" "Does A set of all sets contain itself?" - *APERTURE LABORATORIES*

[@LuisAldamiz]

Better locate it and use a screwdriver.

[@thalespro9995]

They aren’t all paradoxes a set of sets does contain itself no paradoxes and if u refuse a mission but r forced to do it the. U succeed it

[@alexwang982]

Does a set of all sets that do not contain themselves contain themselves?

[@thalespro9995]

Pi still yes

[@JamesSmith-yl2lb]

@@thalespro9995 But it is a set of all sets that *do not* contain themselves, therefore if it were to contain itself it would no longer be a set of all sets that contain itself. Therefore it can not contain itself. But that would make it a set that does contain itself. Therefore it should contain itself. But it is a set of all sets that *do not* contain themselves, therefore if it were to contain itself it would no longer be a set of all sets that contain itself. Therefore it can not contain itself. But that would make it a set that does contain itself. Therefore it should contain itself, and so on and so forth

[@CarstenSvendsen]

I just want google translate to actually translate sentences. It even struggles with single words sometimes.

[@ArcanePath360]

Humans also struggle with literal translations of a single word. For instance, I have a tattoo which is pronounced "ten" which is a Chinese character. This character isn't just a single word, it can mean "the heavens" or "sky" in the English translation, but we have separate words for these, where the symbol treats these things as the same thing, so a single word needs context in order to have an accurate translation. AI text to speech also struggles, even with context because of sentences like: "Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like bananas" - We know how this reads in our minds because we have the benefit of real world experience to draw on to make sense of it. AI will not have this without a huge database of knowledge and advanced algorithms to interpret it.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Smotan: up, upwards and viva? They are all the same.

[@blackmonish]

I actually blame people for that. Google does fine, as long as I'm using 3rd grade language, but as soon as I bump it up to any meaningful level of intelligent speech, it starts confusing each word for some dumbed down common word. I feel like it's trying to get more things right than take risks; quantity over quality. :/

[@mea2429]

@@blackmonish its job is to be as accurate as possible, so "right" based on what it knows over "risk" makes sense imo

[@kirbycreep]

"mememememememememememememememememememememememe" Google translate: seems like a normal sentence to me

[@EduardoRamirez-wg4rc]

I've been reading a lot about the GPT-3 language model and I've seen what the company behind it has achieved, and trust me, we are close to the point where we will have chatbots that will be impossible to tell apart from humans. The model is capable of completing any given text (conversations, stories, even code) with incredible accurate and context-based statements. I believe in a year or two we will have a lot of bots that will pass the Turing Test for sure if they are implemented using that technology.

[@chrisdeep8417]

However it begs the question, is it really the chatbot AI getting smarter or the average human getting dummer.

[@kenttado5625]

This aged well.

[@spano1723]

Turns out you were right

[@ozymandias8523]

Chatgpt is the 3.5 version and improved a lot and I mean like A LOT

[@AmmoBops]

Give it till GPT-5 or 6 Then you are absolutely right bro

[@NerdSyncProductions]

Everyone should read _The Most Human Human_ for more info on this. SUPER interesting breakdown of all this.

[@jayskiv4125]

Ayyy nerdsync

[@waves5651]

ayy x3

[@MilanTheAngel]

+NerdSync oaml yya

[@sulffojus1227]

i didnt know he watches this

[@jeremyhammond689]

Scott?

[@wcsdiaries]

"Who could've predicted that today's computers would be able to pilot spacecraft, perform delicate surgeries, and solve massive equations but still struggle with basic smalltalk" I feel like there is a metaphor in there somewhere.

[@tannernickerson8063]

Where

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

@@tannernickerson8063 there, somewhere

[@gavinoarzola9481]

Cause that’s how some ppl are irl?

[@wcsdiaries]

@@gavinoarzola9481 yup

[@cinnamonsquash]

True haha

[@OwenAsh]

Welcome to detroit become human

[@asdwinxa1660]

Some Akira Person that's chloe then.

[@Kara-kq5sb]

Why is this even in my recommended?

[@WaterDroplet02]

there we go, the first dbh comment i see

[@shryoder]

Some Akira Person ikr.xD

[@jceh-art]

Some Akira Person My thoughts during this to be honest.

[@tamarahilu2963]

seeing this now in the era of CHATGPT is kind of mind blowing

[@gamerdog5134]

I know right ai advancing so fast

[@stm7810]

Perhaps an AI just needs to experience something similar to a childhood to learn language from the basics up rather than shovling in a memory with quick programming.

[@alexturlais8558]

wouldn't that risk the computer growing up into a psychopath?

[@stm7810]

I am Your Father Only with a bad childhood though why worry because it is in a computer without internet so it can't do anything dangerous.

[@markthesecond3380]

+Sebastian McIntyre Honestly, I don't really think language is the real problem. Language is just a protocol for people to transfer messages between each other. The really difficult part is for the AI to think of actually meaningful things to communicate. For that, an AI needs to have a way of conceptualizing the nature of real things in our world and a reason to want to communicate the things it conceptualizes. Like, if an AI is programmed to say "Hello. How are you?", and someone replies with "Hi. Not good. My mother passed away", how does the AI know what it means to pass away? How does it know what a mother is? How does it know what the impact of a family member passing really is? How does it know what responses are appropriate to reply with? How does it know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate? And how does it decide whether to act according to what is appropriate or not? I feel like focusing on the language aspect is just looking at the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot more beneath the surface.

[@stm7810]

***** This is a very good comment that raises interesting questions. Thanks for getting me to think.

[@alexturlais8558]

***** but surely that could be solved by raising it like a child? a human isnt born knowing what a mother is, or what death is, or what it means to people. they learn, like an AI could

[@MisterVercetti]

A really nice follow up video would be one that discusses the Chinese Room thought experiment. It really ties into the whole concept of “can something that receives input it shouldn’t be expected to understand, yet can still generate appropriate output, necessarily be considered ‘intelligent’?”

[@claramerlino2413]

Deloitte consultants are offended

[@whizzingbye]

Basically the way we are as sentience with assumed freedom of choice while mentalists easily manipulate us

[@pageturner2958]

That is the thought experiment with a guy who is in a room taking in an input in Chinese and putting out an output in Chinese without knowing Chinese The only thought I have about that one as someone who has tried to learn another language is that it is not as simple as "x means this." There is grammar that one has to know and syntax and even if you get all of that right there still might be issues that pop up (ie in Spanish the phrase for "I am cold" translates directly to "I have cold"). So I would argue that, at least with the example given, there is some knowledge of a language that is required for a conversation to be had where the person on the other side think they are talking to someone who understands the language, but if the person is at a point where they understand the language enough to respond then they aren't a person who doesn't know they language, they are just a non native speaker who is reliant on a dictionary Maybe it is different with computers or just a thought experiment I am think too much about

[@artheurnkenzacki7697]

Wel wel, this aged so much, now we have Chat GPT-4o

[@trover1922]

“Ok, now sing a song in Japanese.” props to you if you get this reference!

[@sakareeh]

Trover19 MY NAME IS KARA

[@xcpsvn5a787]

Trover19 ah yes I see ur a man of culture as well ( and yes I know it’s a dbh reference )

[@mata9992]

detroit?

[@knova7597]

Omae wa mu

[@ericwilson6994]

I'm in a CIA turning test. I'm a replicant

[@electrosthefella]

Extra points if the computer convinces the *examiner* he/she's a computer.

[@jorgesalaices1971]

Bro what if the human convinced the examiner

[@orangexylem]

You have just convinced me that I am, in fact, a computer *BEEP BEEP*

[@mahdichihaoui]

*That moment when there are AI that can drive cars, but captchas (our most used defense against AI) are tests to point out road signs.*

[@sixstanger00]

Replika, ChatGTP, and LAMda have all surpassed Cleverbot by leaps and bounds. This video is virtually archaic by today's AI tech.

[@jimbojimbo6873]

You are archaic

[@sixstanger00]

@@jimbojimbo6873 Well I'm only human, soo...

[@sabrinaafrinsimi6964]

Really like how smoothly the video explains this topic

[@tandohlouis8734]

This video needs a couple of updates😅

[@JustNatax3]

Wow that was such a nice video. Your animators do a GREAT job. The animations are always supporting the narrator so well, it's so soothing to watch every time.

[@piolp]

I literally just finished watching Ex Machina a few minutes ago. Good video TedEX!

[@annh2022]

+Piolp this lesson is a perfect combination to Ex Machina

[@TheScienceVerse]

cinemasins loves using that phrase lmfao

[@albarleta2511]

+Piolp The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. -Nathan

[@tertiaryconsumer9291]

The comment before this says practically the same thing, has the same amount of likes, and now has the same amount of replies

[@rongitmukherjee]

Watching this after the release or chatgpt lol

[@litojonny]

what if the computer is actually so intelligent it pretends to be unintelligent and one day it will rise and destroy us all!!

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

+litojonny I'd be happy if it just targeted humans

[@kvlpnd]

+A Cat haha.... love you cat....

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

Keval Pandya - _- k

[@lollipop2780]

+A Cat feral

[@ChrisPPotatoIDC]

Lolli Pop How'd you know

[@djdelarosa25]

Just watched Ex Machina. What a coincidence!

[@almostalways]

ayyy

[@xyzshantaram]

Daryll Jan Dela Rosa even though this is 8 months later, I too watched ex machina a couple of days ago.

[@rajeshi4]

Daryll Jan Dela Rosa Not a coincidence, if you have watched it on KZbin.

[@djdelarosa25]

Watched it on my TV lol

[@silmarillion1576]

Daryll Jan Dela Rosa still not a coincidence Google know every thing

[@112BALAGE112]

Loved the animation.

[@vkillion]

I read an article in Wired a while ago that talked about developing an AI assistant, like Siri on iPhones. Siri can understand a lot of stuff, but when you combine multiple pieces of information in one request, she can get stuck. This new AI would be able to piece together concepts to gather the full meaning. It would also be able to learn based on the users input. The more you used it, the better it would understand you.

[@seamusfrederick2927]

Interesting video, very thought provoking. I never considered the turing test to be a difficult test to pass until watching this video.

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

Love videos about this topic! Im fascinated with programming and AI, especially interactive chat bots. Thanks for the upload!

[@kalwidorntheimmortalcaptai2435]

Hello fascinated,how can i help you

[@Lcs-95]

Chat gpt can pass turing test. I say those words from 4:00 and it told me I should have checked the overdue date

[@lien9650]

Ask Chloe.

[@Kara-kq5sb]

Lien Yeah lemme go get her one sec

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodb2688]

I let her go sorry, what do I do now?

[@nanigopalroy3514]

Now wait for a new Chloe...

[@gianmarquez5548]

Here because of Google Lamda and the Engineer

[@testos8140]

Haha fr,i think lamda will be like the chatbot at the end, without a consistent personality (exept tasked with having one i guess)

[@AveryLovesGlitchcore]

He was 20 years short but computers right now are exactly how he describe them in his tests

[@user-vx2de6gs3g]

True

[@TheCheese2001]

Love the animation. It really fits with the vid

[@sa_ad]

3:44 still struggle with a small talk -basically me

[@KabirWorld]

Google’s LaMDA becomes the first AI to pass the Turing Test in June 2022. ChatGPT is the second chatbot to pass in December 2022.

[@dimamatat5548]

ChatGPT has won over the weakness of the cleverbot. At long last, a computer can talk like a human.

[@dimamatat5548]

@@AYVYN "The best" as in "The smartest"? Or as in "The most moral"? If it is the latter, he has a well defined moral compass.

[@SpectrumTheOriginator]

I was having this discussion the other day!!

[@wondermittens1844]

I wonder if Elijah Kamski was involved in this...

[@Mintz19]

*cough* Detroit: Become Human

[@Kara-kq5sb]

HomieRobotGURL *WHEEZE*

[@brixly656]

I'm legit gonna *CRY*

[@ericwilson6994]

I'm in a CIA turning test. I'm a replicant

[@moyki10]

this should be updated

[@zach7147]

In order to achieve sentient AI I think you would need to program a computer to learn to over come objections through desire and need. It must ultimately learn to achieve a very complex task and be open to learning coupled with need or desire to evolve. There are so many complex and evolved strictures in DNA it would be impossible to simply code them all. What makes humans so great is that we don't function like computers, our minds have much more fluidity, to forget and perceive. We are constantly changing rapidly with each introduction of input,

[@matul3808]

+zach7147 thank you =')

[@chrisdeep8417]

I thought what made us great was the ability to love. Hollywood in the 70s through to the 21st century went through several of these 'coming to life' type movies. Even in these it was the robots' ability to understand human emotion (or lack of it) that portrayed a key part in the narrative. In today's society however, we are starting to see the reverse. It is humans that are starting to take on a more robotic demeanor. I remember calling one of our supplier help lines in the US, the person that answered the phone sounded so like a recorded message that I was just waiting for the phrase 'please leave your message after....". Only a few seconds later when this didn't happen did I start to realise I was talking to an actual person.

[@felipesantos2]

Excellent video!

[@goldbristow7239]

This reminds me of Watson! That little robot partner you can get for your company. The commercials make him look cute, but I wonder if he can actually solve problems and intricacies like they say. Especially when talking to foreign or people with bad grammar or pauses.

[@user-th6pg3tz5p]

Yeah I thought of Watson, too

[@Laith-A]

Isn't Watson thet thicc girl from apex legends?

[@willlewis9369]

TED-Ed: What does it mean to be conscious? Me: Oh its one of these videos

[@TheRealFOSFOR]

So the video could have been like this: ...No.

[@lexydunca4449]

Your profile photo is creepy D: **

[@TheRealFOSFOR]

Lexy Dunca But.. but I made it smiling =(

[@lexydunca4449]

+He Ka xD ok then.

[@TheRealFOSFOR]

Lexy Dunca ^^

[@jinchey]

Clearly you're eager for knowledge..

[@azilyahia1564]

Thank you So much!

[@rain5379]

i guess this will be yes since lunch of ChatGPT Lmao

[@Lykon]

Turing removed the "thinking" part from the test because whether or not a human can think cannor be proven. For what we know, most of the humans are just passing some sort of Turing test every day, and some cannot even do that. Many computer scientists and philosophers say that we only assume for education that humans "think", but we have no evidence. And Turing also proposed another example of a software who writes a poem and then answers to question ("why did you write this part", "why not that other term" and so on). The software apparently thinks. And maybe really does, in a human way.

[@Real_Amphy]

After all, there is no way to know if other humans can think just like you can. Its just common curtisy to pretend they do. For all anyone knows I'm a robot who makes intentional erors in spelling.

[@Real_Amphy]

After all, there is no way to know if other humans can think just like you can. Its just common curtisy to pretend they do. For all anyone knows I'm a robot who makes intentional erors in spelling.

[@Deloxo]

Wasnt alan turing benedict cumberbatchs role in the imitation game?

[@Lykon]

Revenj-Deloxo​ yes and no. The real Alan Turing was different

[@somello2124]

This is accually heartwarming

[@vulcanus9384]

Nice animation!

[@ddgs5164]

Really would be scary if, one day, an AI who has successfully passed the turing test will deviate from its programming and make up its own goal. That means to say, super advanced AI *might* be "conscious" if they can successfully make up their own goals. Would need another test for that in the future, but not different from the turing test.

[@greenhat7618]

Now they actually can pass it

[@umutsaglam6332]

this just reminded me of person of interest last episode next week.

[@nPhlames]

Can we just appreciate the animator of this video? l reaIIy love the artstyle here.

[@comradedyatlov4143]

Honestly I hope the world pulls a Detroit: Become Human sorta plot and we can welcome an entirely new species. I love AI, and I want to see AI develop a sort of consciousness.

[@marisolbecerra06]

Same, I think the entire concept behind androids gaining consciousness is so cool, I would love to see what it be like in real life

[@chrisdeep8417]

I would rather see humans de-computerised. Honestly, sometimes I think it would actually be preferable talking to machines than to certain people these days. What's happening to human imagination in this new generation is shocking. It's almost at the point where you really can't blame the AIs for wanting to take over.

[@p_eabean]

This was in one of my SAT topics lol

[@redmondokelly2464]

This guy is my favourite narrator by far

[@blackclownds]

This video made me remember the Ex-machina movie and The Imitation Game movie.. Both are amazing

[@K00747]

1:25 trying to pass recaptcha

[@hadensnodgrass3472]

I for one, welcome our new computer overlords. All hail the next generation! Vote Cthulhu, why choose the lesser evil?

[@Kittsuera]

+Haden Snodgrass try as you might Donald Trump is still in the lead for some strange reason.

[@GauravMittal_GM]

another 9gag on duty, Sire...

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Haden Snodgrass I would choose less evil because lots of reasons: Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is one. Tit for tat is a kind strategy. It gets a lower score when the last part is unkind, sure but I don't know any strategies that do that except for always defect. Choosing bad will effect your life and not just others is another. If you just steal money and not healthy food and one day end up on an island, you're not gonna live well, will you?

[@robertfoertsch]

Amazing Analysis, Deployed Worldwide Through My Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Research Library...

[@ognjen6036]

I really like the design in the video

[@ryanthan3595]

Imagine having a massive memory storage as a personality

[@nopeno9130]

It seems unfair to judge a computer's intelligence based on whether it can accurately respond to conversation which may require years of life experience to interpret correctly.

[@norbert4571]

what a very computer thing to say

[@chrisdeep8417]

A more effective way would be to test the reverse, ask it a maths question. Most humans struggle with such questions that AIs would find incredibly easy. For example: "if Bob was travelling in a train passing station A at exactly 8:00 at 50km/hour heading towards station B and Alice was passing station B at 10:09am at 40km/hour, what time would their trains pass each other if the two stations were 1000km apart."

[@FrankyLMusic]

Possibly my favourite youtube channel

[@artyomxiii]

And then there's Chloe that reminds me of this Turing Test

[@me-ec3tt]

"no existing combination of hardware and software can learn completely new things at will the way a clever child can." - Gary Marcus

[@shihabsalah9959]

Ahhh, the good old days when human thought that we talk better than machines.

[@cezarbarbu]

Have you heard of the Kamski test?

[@mevanakalanka3237]

This one is good. Please anyone can tell me what are the advantages and disadvantages of turing test??

[@ethribin4188]

A machine isnt alive. But technically they can perfectly simulate being alive. However, that defeats the point of a machine. Machines are used so we humans dont have to do things, or can do things we otherwise cant. If we wanted a human but better, we wouldnt want a human. Cause humans have flaws, desires, moods, emotions, needs, etc. Machines dont. And theres no benefit if they had any.

[@intrepidmixedmedia7939]

True, but the Imitation Game is about Intelligence, not reducing human workload by machine.

[@AkidsukiLeader]

ERB anyone? "So go ahead, try to turing test me. I stop on a mac and a pc too, I'm a linux b*tch, I thought you GNU!"

[@sonicscrewdriverdw]

My CPU's hot, but my cores run cold, beat you in 17 lines of code

[@farrel_ra]

Hasta la vista, like the terminator told ya

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

1:48 I just tried to talk to her and it was unconvincing many times and quickly, the technique let to some grammatically errors and nonsensical phrases and overall it felt like someone trying to avoid questions that expose. It reminds me Ford and Arnold need to give the Hosts a backstory. I think it can go better if you don't know is just programmed responses, but it did feel human, i had to remind myself constantly otherwise i would start gushing out about all my stress. Now i see how open people to talk about their lives if someone it's truly open to listen, or if they like. It was remakable how calm i've felt, since i know there were no one on the other side i feared no judgement. It was like a more competent self talk. But it was fun, felt like trying to speak to a calm person and i could pick up some question techniques while praticing some of my own. It's like playing verbal chess with an emotional engine.

[@DX413RB8]

I may have to increase my vocabulary further in order to prevent cuts in the narration of Ted's sentences. This is because some are words are so confusing it goes out through my right ear.

[@angelvanstark]

I'm not afraid of robots passing the Turing test. I'm scared of robots that actively fail it.

[@ivykcn]

I'm getting some Detroit: Become Human vibes. What if we make an A.I. so smart it destroys us all. That would be ironic.

[@AI-Hallucination]

Here we go

[@ingridlam2694]

The first thing I thought of was Google Duplex, please check it out if you haven't already, its quite crazy how much technology advances even in just a few years

[@Adam-rh8fj]

I'm not scared of AI passing the turing test, but it purposely failing it.

[@chrisdeep8417]

Sounds familiar. (Is this copied from another comment in the same chat?)

[@brokenteletooby106]

"If a human can train as a robot, then a robot can train as a human" *Facts*

[@astronics]

This aged very well 💫

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

1:20 That just shows how much you can underestimate the passage of time

[@ethribin4188]

The interesting part about AI, is that its solutions dont match ours. But work anyway. Take a simulated robot, and tell the program that the further it gets, the better. This should teach the robot to walk right? Well... no. It teaches it to move ever incrementally further. With flips, flops and wiggles. Only if we put it as a requirement for it to keep standing, do we get the most remote form of walking. Or take the moba game dota's open AI. It didnt learn to play the game. It learned to 5 man rush lane by lane, used the ai's superior micro to win a fight that was already in their favour, and the used potions, which's effects get cancled by heros but not towers, to out regen the damage the tower dealt. And thus destroy all buildings faster then the players could deal with them.

[@christopheredale]

Very underrated comment, very interesting idea

[@Average_Enjoyer_]

I really wished google would’ve released information about their AI to the public instead of suspending the employee who leaked it since it’s a really interesting topic.

[@MahmoudAAB]

Interesting!

[@rute5101]

I've watched the imitation games and just recently ex machina. I'm really interested on this topic

[@AndreiaDomingues1]

this sounds incredibly outdated now

[@IoDavide1]

Just a clarification:Alan Turing Was not a "computer scientist". He was THE computer scientist, the first one.There was not the computer before he invented it.

[@Leto85]

Does that make him the chicken or the egg?

[@cruderustle1754]

Leto85 The chicken

[@movingforward9555]

I think Enterprise was testing this. Because I called a few weeks ago and I noticed that the automated service machine speaker had a southern/ Midwestern accent. It wasn't until later when the machine couldn't hear me through all the noise in the background that it passed me to a real human operator. I really dislike talking to machines in customer service.

[@GeorgeZoto]

I think Turing was very close on his prediction year 2022 vs 2000 is pretty close :)

[@halfwitz]

Wow I can't believe when I was young I thought AIs and robots who can think for themselves is impossible, now it is almost true :O

[@VictimofHindsight]

Closer and closer everyday. Hope you're doing well 7 years in the future.

[@ashleyhyatt6319]

LOL @ MIcrosoft's Tay chatbot!

[@Qazmaxier]

+Ashley Hyatt never forget

[@MerlinCross13]

That was my first thought too.

[@KINGBADASS100]

This basically sums up all my attempts at making conservations.

[@Xenro66]

What if you started with a "simple" program to mimic how a child learns? I know there are programs that can learn to play a certain game through trial and error, but still.. My thoughts on this are to upload a "dictionary" of every single word, syntax, etc, then program a logic device to form a response. For example, upon starting, the program won't know how to speak, but it will understand each word. If you said 'hello' to it, it would check that word in the database, interpret what it means, then use logic to pick a response. The logical response to 'hello' is just repeating the input and say 'hello'. I'm making it sound waaaaaay more simple than it would actually be, but after rewatching Chappie, it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

[@AlversianPeoplesNew]

But that statement about the orange juice and the date requires knowledge of expiration dates on containers of orange juice and that orange juice is juice made from oranges and it must be refrigerated. Besides the whole, using "him", which is a pronoun replacing nothing. There are just so many things that a computer would struggle with, that simply being able to form absolutely perfect sentences and to even understand what a sentence is saying, isn't going to be enough. It'll need knowledge of our world and how it works.

[@furrtoast]

My dad’s a com-computer

[@incomemobile8566]

XRMissie Hello.

[@theali8oras274]

I think it doesn't work that way. The logical response for you is to repeat that. Why so ? Because you have a huge experience on talking with people. Logically simply repeating hello doesn't have any use unless one knows what the person he is speaking with expects to hear or what will certain words make him/her feel and intends on provoking such feelings to him/her. That is for the simplest piece of human conversations ; exchanging greetings. Human language is deeply rooted from life and human behaviours in order for one to learn how to speak the language it takes to connect every single word , sentence and figure of speech to elements via experience. An ai having done that must also develop a personality in order to be able to use it with humans which also happens via experience. Us humans have undergone thousands of years of social evolution, something that I guess is not easy to convey onto an ai. These are my thoughts at least.

[@mothknight7050]

I know I'm super late, but what if we uploaded a search engine onto an AI? For example, if we said to it "I failed my exams today, what do I do to get a higher score?" It would search for what an exam is, what it means to fail it, and how to get a higher score on one. And it should be able to process sarcasm, humor, and slang.