free will is fucking silly, either the universe is deterministic, which is nightmarish, or things happen for no reason, which is even more nightmarish
the Turing test was a thought experiment intended to address the idea of what machine intelligence, in principle, is capable of. this is a great read, and seems fresh and relevant 67 years later https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf …
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recommend going right to section 6 "contrary views on the main question" for the philosophical discussion
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yeah, i should rather say "the Turing test considered as any kind of definitive benchmark of validity of an intelligence is narcissistic twaddle"
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right. the strangest thing about it is that it was later misinterpreted into being an actual contest, performed as a metric for the quality of conversation simulation algorithms. that emphatically wasn't the point of the the original thought experiment!
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