X-Message-Number: 8562 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 10:25:34 -0400 From: "John P. Pietrzak" <> Subject: The Inhumanity of Cryonet References: <> John K Clark wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 1997 <> Wrote: > > >To my mind, however, the ability to mimic a human pattern of > >responses to queries across a network connection is not > >sufficient to encompass the intelligence of a human. > > We're answering each other's questions over a network right now, do > you think I or anybody on Cryonet is a human and if so why? Right now, I do believe we're all humans here. :) Why, because I know pretty well what the state of the art is currently in attempts to create Turing-Test-beating software. I also believe that within a decade or so, it will actually become very hard to tell (at least over a short period of time) whether you are receiving mail from a real person or an automaton -- i.e., I believe that the Turing Test will be beaten (at least for a majority of interrogators :) ), and soon. The question then becomes, is that program (which beat the TT) intelligent? I have no idea, because we don't use a definiton of intelligence in the Turing Test! We may not be able to immediately tell that the thing isn't human, but I'll bet that the majority of us will still feel the thing is not quite what measures up to actual "intelligence". John Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8562