Some months before the first computer officially passes the Turing test, a 23-year-old junior programmer, two years out of Princeton with a degree in business information systems (and who never even heard the names “Robert George” or “Peter Singer”), sits in an office meeting and raises some questions with his boss: “so, uh, yeah… how do we want it to respond to voice commands like ‘Are you a person’ or ‘are you conscious?’”
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Kristor said,
July 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm
I read this post on my new iPhone 4S. This is the iPhone that has Siri onboard. Siri is the automated assistant to whom you can speak your requests, and then she’ll try to answer your question or perform your task. E.g., you can say to Siri, “What is the diameter of Jupiter?” She will search the web for the info, if the phone doesn’t already have it.
Reason I say all this is that, having read the post, I asked Siri, “Are you a person?” Her response: “That’s a pretty personal question, Kristor.” I then asked, “Are you conscious?” The response was … silence.
Clearly there are some programmers over at Apple who are familiar with the Turing test!
Joseph Bolin said,
July 16, 2012 at 1:42 pm
In my opinion, by the point a computer (would it still be merely a computer?) is able to thoroughly pass the Turing test with someone who has adequate time, and is familiar both with computers and with the human temptations to identify with non-rational beings, the computer would not need, and perhaps would be hindered by having, special programming regarding its own status, but would be able to make statements about whether it it is a person and conscious by comparing the kinds of things it does and the ways in which people react to it, with the sorts of things that things do and the ways in which people react to things that are called persons and said to be conscious.
MikeFlynn said,
July 16, 2012 at 3:13 pm
The Turing test is inconclusive. Searle’s Chinese Room passes the Turing test.