[{"id":1173,"title":"Alternative to Turing’s test on AI","sha":"23e327847db8f0e50124da45ec0aa751","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"As Turing wrote in his Can digital computers think?, we could know if a subject not of our own kind is an intelligent source through their output signals. However, the signal he selected is perhaps not as clear cut as he presupposed: “… it will be possible to programme a machine to answer questions in such a way that it will be extremely difficult to guess whether the answers are being given by a man or by the machine.” This future is here with ever-advancing AI tools already able to build convincing answers. Von Neuman suggested a stricter test: “the sudden pounce on an idea.\r\nI suggest intonation—reading aloud—as a test of an intelligent subject. Ask any text-to-speech software  to recite Lorca’s Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias or Elliot’s The Waste Land. Intonation is contingent on meaning, which is a manifestation of understanding.\r\nA real test to detect a human signal producing-being could be the congruent emotional reading of a new poem or a paragraph for which meaning, context and understanding is essential. It is not a test of emotional response á la Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampff test, but one that relies on evaluating emotional intonation output for a diagnosis..\r\n","created_at":"2023-11-29T07:42:51.276Z","updated_at":"2024-04-14T16:11:30.337Z","zenodo_id":10426525,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10426525","subject":null,"tags":["ai","meaning","context","understanding","intonation"],"vote_count":3,"view_count":1,"score":3.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]