On Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 8:00 PM Shashank Yadav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Turing test is anything but a test of consciousness. We don't have such a > test. We just tend to believe something is conscious when it acts in a > manner relatable to us. > Of course. Turing discussed consciousness in section 6.4 of his 1950 paper. It is irrelevant to winning the imitation game. https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf Of course he was right. The question of whether machines can think has been debated endlessly, even after Turing defined a test that makes the question irrelevant. That turned out to be correct when the test was passed 72 years later. We have senses of consciousness, qualia, and free will. These feelings originate from internal positive reinforcement of computation, input, and output, respectively. These signals evolved to motivate us to not lose them by dying, which results in more offspring. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tba3441daa3852b75-Mdc156ee9c18505ba79f0b830 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
