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Best of Daniel Dennett Amazing Arguments And Clever Comebacks Part 4
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"Negotiating the registration of the manifest…" Oh Dan… What does that even pretend to mean? You really need a pint in your hand before you say something like that.
Thinking babies are cute and wanting to cuddle them is strictly an evolutionary adaptation not just in humans. Any species that has vulnerable young that can't live without care from its parents and fellow members of that species will not succeed in the chain of life. Humans and some other animals can also transfer that instinct for caring for the young to other species. Hince we find the babies of dogs, cats, and other mammal animals so compelling.
These videos would be better if they were volume balanced. I have to increase and decrease the volume with each clip in this video.
Turing's test failed as a conversation stopper for another reason, which should really trouble us. That is, we today have a vast amount of robots that routinely get mistaken as humans, and they are not even AIs! Twitter bots and their relatives, spreading fake news, ads, and whatever else someone wants to have spread around, and we already are fairly sure that they can influence elections, for example. And they do it by imitating people just enough that we trust them. I'd call that a serious problem – but it has nothing to do with AI. (Then again, the test might well fail there in a different way, because it's not necessary for an AI to be good at impersonating a human being, even if it's well beyond any reasonable line of "not intelligent below this".)
But then, Turing's test, just like the Fermi paradox, are much more useful as a tool to compare our understanding of the world to the world itself, than as proof of anything whatsoever.
Oh, and I'd argue that the Turing machine – a theoretical extremely simple computer that can be shown to be able to do everything our modern, complicated computers can, and is thus an ideal basis for large parts of the theory of computing – is a lot more important than the Turing test. Also, his work on cracking Enigma during WW II.