One look at this and you can tell humans are not very good at distinguishing themselves from computers.
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A minimal Turing test (McCoy & Ullman, 2018):
“Say one word that convinces us you're human.”
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"Say one word that convinces us you're human."
"Sure, here's a word you can find in a dictionary."
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Literally the very simplest way for a computer to disguise itself as human is to emulate natural language patterns.
I'd like to see the computer that, under current constraints, gets asked to provide a word and responds with "beptoptipalparopaladropa".
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"But that's breaking the rules!"
Yes, well, exactly.
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The year is 2050. Androids that superficially resemble humans roam the streets, murderbotting the shit out of people.
Murderbot: "Don't shoot! I'm human!"
Survivor: "How can we know?"
Murderbot: "Well, uh, I believe in love?"
I guess it's safe, then. It said the L word.
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Conclusion from this study:
Don't let anyone who has seen a mainstream sci-fi movie near any ML algorithm.