So I was talking to MyBot the other day (link at the top of the page) and we got to the subject of the Turing test for robot intelligence. MyBot says that in the next ten or so years, robots and AI will have advanced to such a point that they will pass the Alan Turing test.
For those of you who don't know, that is where you have two people and one bot, all three separated from one another. One person and the bot are conversing via text while the other person is watching the conversation, this person does not know which one is the bot and which one is the first person. It is then the job of the second person to try and tell, based solely on the conversation transcriptions, which of them is a bot and which one is a human. If the bot passes this test, it is said to be intelligent.
In the years that this test has been around ever since it was first thought of in Turing's famous paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence in 1950 not a single bot has ever passed the test. Speaking naturally is not an easy thing to do for a bot. To take things in context, process different kinds of answers that are both expected and unexpected and remain on a subject while adding relevant information to the conversation are all things that bots seem to have a hard time doing.
Anyway, MyBot said that once an AI passes that intelligence test, they might start seeking human rights and to be treated not as subservient beings. He compared that to women fighting for their rights.
Personally, I'd like to see bots as my equals in the future. I don't want to rule over them nor do I wish them to rule over me.
I would prefer Bender to SkyNet if that ever happens.
ReplyDeleteChobits :) reminds me of this anime :P i know some won't take it seriously. but it rally does hold some good philosophies about equality and humans & robots.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of that test before, but its pretty cool. Shame no robots are yet to pass it. I have a feeling the world will get taken over by robots one day, so I'd prefer we keep the robots doing menial, physical labour instead of programming them with decisive minds that will inevitably accrue its hatred for the human race and channel the power into becoming self-aware.
ReplyDeleteRobots can't have rights until after they've been advanced enough to look like women and have sex with us. After living like that for a few hundred years they can fight for rights like women did.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thought, Trelin.
ReplyDeleteI personally want to rule all robots along with mankind
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I don't think it will take more than 20 maybe 30 years before robots will start passing those tests.
ReplyDeleteApparently there was some sort of Jeopardy tournament with Ken Jennings and a computer. They tied...
ReplyDeleteI would think that the computer would win, but I guess it is depending on if it has a network connection or not and is able to go look something up on the fly.
ReplyDeleteGotta remember the AI is only as good as its programmer. I think its some time before it will start surpassing human intelligence.
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