{"id":511,"date":"2024-11-14T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/isg-neuronarrativeai\/?p=511"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:00:05","slug":"why-turing-was-wrong-machines-language-and-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/isg-neuronarrativeai\/why-turing-was-wrong-machines-language-and-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Turing Was Wrong: Machines, Language and Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Joshua F. Dienstag<\/a>, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge that talking machines pose to traditional conceptions of the human is profound. If language activity is crucial to human status, then why should we not include talking machines in our community? What are our grounds for distinguishing computer-generated language from human language? Here I turn to Rousseau\u2019s\u00a0Letter to D\u2019Alembert<\/em>, a classic text that describes the illusions of the theatre and why we should not let our polity lose the ability to distinguish reality from fiction.\u00a0\u00a0Our world is full of appearances that plausibly engage our emotions and our minds without being real.\u00a0\u00a0The Turing test is deeply flawed just because it makes no attempt to distinguish the real from the apparent or fraudulent. But it is hardly beyond our capacity to do so. \u00a0Rather than Turing\u2019s \u2018imitation game\u2019, I propose a reciprocity test that involves trust and honesty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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