The Turing test focuses on the ability to chat—can we test the ability to think?
    • aname@lemmy.one
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      10 months ago

      Yes, but we have no strict or clear s ientific definition of what makes humans intelligent or what intelligence even is.

      Humans are intelligent and machines are not “just because”

        • aname@lemmy.one
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          10 months ago

          Yes, but we also have to draw a line somewhere. You could just as well turn any non-random based computer program into a huge hashtable, yet the intelligence arises from somewhere. There is no magic to human intelligence, unless you start believing in the soul or something.

            • aname@lemmy.one
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              10 months ago

              Yes but you are missing my point. We have no way of measuring if a human is intelligent. The whole intelligence might just as well be an illusion.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Any hash map you or I have ever seen is not very intelligent, possibly not at all. But the infinitely large hash map we’re talking of is different. It can handle any possible situation it encounters. That’s part of its definition.

      Our hashmaps — the finite hashmaps we use to store shipping addresses and candy crush preferences — would be torn to shreds in the real world. But not this infinite hashmap that maps all possible inputs to all possible outputs. It’s a one-layer network but it’s really wide. It’s as wide as the universe of possibility, at least.