(April 23, 2015 at 4:50 am)Chuck Wrote:No, but I do presume I am able to engage in plenty of activities that eliminate doubt as to whether or not I am a person. I don't even know what that last remark means.(April 23, 2015 at 12:33 am)Nestor Wrote: The Turing test, no. Allow me to introduce the Dostoevsky test. When an entire dictionary is uploaded into a computer's language program, and pressed to take some time to express its "emotions" and "thoughts," if it can return with a work that approaches The Brothers Karamazov, perhaps writing notes about the process and how it came up with the ideas or subplots on the side, it will have sufficiently convinced me. Shit, I'd be happy if it produced something akin to Genesis 1 or even Dr. Seuss. Come to think of it, has anyone tried to write a book via a computer that formulates from its own software meaningful and/or artful syntax?
Well, this is interesting:
http://singularityhub.com/2014/11/09/com...read-them/
You presume you can pass the Dostoevsky test?
Perhaps the big gap is not between your mind and computer, but between your mind and your concept of Dostoevsky.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
