Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3431-3435 (6th to 10th March 2017)
hedgie:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 10 Mar 2017, 12:54 ---Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
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I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 10 Mar 2017, 14:48 ---
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 10 Mar 2017, 12:54 ---Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
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I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
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Were you required to take a Turing test before you were admitted? *I* certainly wasn't.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 10 Mar 2017, 12:54 ---Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
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The "Turing test" is applied to all who wish to register at this forum, whether fleshbots or AIs - several questions with answers intended to require a modicum of thought, you may recall. I know that's a rather basic form (probably doesn't meet the definition, actually) - but it is 99.99% effective in blocking spambots.
Zebediah:
As a fun aside, Cory Doctorow speculated that Turing-capable AI would come out of an arms race between spambots and spam filters. This comes from the short story "I, Row-Boat":
--- Quote from: Cory Doctorow ---"Once they became self-modifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a war to see which could act more human, and since their failures invoked a human judgement about whether their material were convincingly human, it was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they could learn. From there came the first machine-intelligence algorithms, and then my kind."
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shanejayell:
I do love how Bubbles is so comically serious. :-D
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