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Ken Kovar's avatar

I didn’t know that the brilliant Mr Polyani had an influence on Turings paper. I feel that he had the most important insight about how human intelligence is fundamentally different from machine intelligence! Restacking!

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Harry Law's avatar

Yes indeed - I find Polyani always pops up with something insightful to say!

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Callum Hackett's avatar

> It’s about the rhetoric of intelligence, not the substance of it.

This is a nice summary. Donald Davidson raised an interesting related question: what would the significance be of a machine that was almost always chosen as the human? On the one hand, you'd think it'd mean the machine was acing the test and would therefore be very intelligent. On the other hand, if the human is never picked, the machine must be doing something other than imitating their intelligence or the rate would be closer to 50/50.

As you say, the test is only testing for what people will call human but that's not clearly related to whether something is human-like. Turing rejected that question but the one he replaced it with is more to do with human psychology than machine capability.

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