HeyJaredTechnology and Society
My focus on this blog will be the intersection of science, technology and society: everything from the history and current status of AI and software; the relationship between science and politics, and how technology is changing workplaces and expertise.
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The debate about AI companies proving theorems is not exactly about competition (opens the original)
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Anthropomorphism is built into the DNA of AI (opens the original)
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What is public opposition to data centers “about”? (opens the original)
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What does the success of LLMs at natural language tell us about computing machinery and intelligence? (opens the original)
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In my last post, I tried to get into the question of whether LLMs have made the Turing Test irrelevant. The answer depends on how you think about the test: as a test of second-order social knowledge or as a test of language performance. But there is a larger question that I think is being imputed when the Turing Test is brought up and that is the question of computing machinery. So what does the success of LLMs at language competence say about machinery? I’ll argue below that
Have LLMs made the Turing Test irrelevant? (opens the original)
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Recently, the climate policy writer Robinson Meyer put out this tweet: Has the Turing Test been rendered obsolete? Part of the problem here is that in the original Turing Test, proposed in 1950, outlines something called an Imitation Game. If a machine can pass the “imitation game,” Turing says, then yes, it can think. But the imitation game, the way Turing conceived it, was written in a particular way: as message passing over a computer terminal. And so many people, including famously, the anal
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