Siri and the turing test

[kch49er]

Dear all,

After reading the following article in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashio...s-bff.html

I just have to wonder, whether the classical Turing test in order to determine, whether an AI has human level intelligence or not, is really an "accurate" measurement of an AI's human-like capabilities. I mean, would an autistic person like Gus be able to pass the classical Turing test? If the answer is maybe not, when maybe this test doesn't prove anything about human intelligence or intelligence in general after all. How do you feel about all this? How accurate can an "intelligence test" like the Turing test be if it actually focuses so much on human conversational skills. The Orion's Arm-Universe even has solipsist ais in the setting which can have transapient capabilities. And yet if a baseline human tried to perform the Turing test on them, they could just ignore the human (in the best case). And so from the point of view of the human it would be the same as talking to an inanimate object, while that "inanimate object" would perform calculations and deliberations (like pondering about the fate of the universe) completely beyond the capabilities of the human, who tried to perform the test. And all the human would think: Well, e doesn't seem to be very intelligent since e can't talk (like me).

While we do have people who have failed the turing test in RL and in OA we have turing-capable and turing-equivalent as synonyms they probably are not the same and not equal to a sophont test. A sophont AI might not be able to pass and a non-sophont might be able to pass. It or rather a revised edition might be useful as a test to see how well a given AI or Vec would work with humans.

In OA though your average sophont might be better at spotting Vec and AI or they might not, a nearbaseline might be coded in a similar way to a machine and a vec migth have auto-evolved out of botsystem or virch equivalent if given enough time,so the lines are blurred a little.