Vladimir_Nesov comments on Turing Test Tournament For Funding - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Strange7 17 December 2010 06:53PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (8)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 December 2010 07:44:06PM 2 points [-]

Still pointless.

Comment author: JenniferRM 17 December 2010 11:14:09PM 1 point [-]

Could you elaborate? Pointless with respect to which goals?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 December 2010 02:02:02PM 9 points [-]

The Turing test was conceived as a thought experiment to define the meaning of the question 'can computers think'. This is obvious if one reads Turing's original paper, and as a thought experiment to establish Turing's point it works great. But I don't really see how actually carrying out the Turing test as a real experiment is going to tell us anything about the state of an AI that wasn't obvious anyway.