About early signs of a singularity and whether the Turing test still matters.
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About early signs of a singularity and whether the Turing test still matters.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
"And what's a "True AI" if you're also implying that it's not able to self-improve?"
Where did I imply such?
We do not really understand "intelligence" yet. So the step of assuming if a digital intelligence comes into being also automatically means, it is able to recoursivly improve itself to godlike capabilities is just a vague hypothesis, not a fact. It might as well be the intelligence of a autistic crow.
Also sure, many humans fail the turing test, too. It is still a very strong indicator, of whether something is really intelligent, or just trying to fake intelligence by diversion tactics, like the chatbots do that try the turing test.