Somebody I'm sure has already said this, but the Turing test assumed AIs would need to prove their intelligence by appearing human in their speech, but now the problem is the opposite, that humans will have to somehow prove that they are not LLMs when they type anything on the internet.

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[–] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some captchas use AI generated images which have been categorized using AI to have me verify I’m human. What are we doing here, guys?

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  • [–] 80 points 11 months ago (22 children)

    You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    If I'm not helping, I imagine there must be some unmentioned factor, such as someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to do that otherwise bad things would happen to me. Or I was slipped some drug that forced me to be a sadist. Without any other factor, I don't imagine myself doing that at all in the first place.

    Edit: Also, the tortoise lies on its back, not lays

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    A land turtle.

    Or a shield frog depending on your language.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Shield toad rather. Frosch vs. Kröte

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Did you buy a present for the person you love? Within cells interlinked.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I assume this some kind of philosophical metaphor but as someone who isn’t into random acts of animal cruelty i have to ask for the answer.

    Why not help?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    ... because I am examining the underside of the tortoise, to try and make out any significant details... because I am utterly befuddled as to how a tortoise came to be in the middle of a vast desert... and because I want to know where the hell I am.

    Presumably, I am in the American Southwest, but if I can possibly specify the species of tortoise, I may be able to discern whether I am in the Mojave, Sonora, or Colorado desert.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Because I'm so frigging hot, I'm so frigging thirsty, I'm so hungry, that I think I'm hallucinating the turtle. I've been trudging through a desert way and now a turtle pops up in the desert out of nowhere. Is the turtle even real, can I not distinguish reality anymore ... would eating it help quench my thirst and anger? Is it wrong to feel no emotion?

    I don't think the test itself is designed to measure emotional response so much as the emotional nuance and the 35 ms latency delay glitch in the Nexus-5 models when dealing with it.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Can you imagine when it's normal for robots to have significant spending power, and become a target for advertisers? They'll need another robot to go "well this ad is targeted at robots so I need to make sure to not show it to any of those pesky humans"

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago*

    The Turing test is most specifically highlighted in movies like Blade Runner or Ex Machina where it's a noire with a lone robot in a room being tested. In reality the future is more like Westworld where there are so many robots that can pass a basic Turing test that people are constantly engaged in more intense Turing tests at all times.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    What a really interesting insight. Here are some more topics that you might find interesting:

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    English isn't my first language, so I get grammatical errors. Now, when I type in my own language, I still get grammatical errors because I've been away for so long from my home country. That should assuage any accusations that I'm a bot.

    However, someone did mention that I sounded like an anime character before. I think it's because I made an analysis that sounded too academic, like being dispassionate and analytical. I spent too much time in academia for my own good before. Well, that is better than sounding like middle managers, which people pointed out that AI sounds awfully like one.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    The T in CAPTCHA stands for Turing test!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Negative, I am a meat puppet.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I like pretending to be a bot for the extra charm: beep boop.

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