Is Turings test the right way to approach the idea of intelligence? In other words, if you have a conversation with a computer and you believe that you are talking with a human, would that computer be intelligent? Why or why not?
Imagine a weird, unholy synthesizer whose buttons sample textual information, style, and semantics. Such a thing is compelling not because it offers answers in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument. First and foremost, ChatGPT lacks the ability to truly understand the complexity of human language and conversation. Now, typically this has meant asking a person, but more often these days there are ways to ask a computer the same things. Students often invest a painstaking amount of time…
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