Comment by coffeebeqn
4 years ago
The whole point of the turing test is that if you can’t tell the difference then something interesting has happened. You can say it’s “just X” or “just Y” but I think you’re being overly dismissive of the accomplishment here. If we’re at a point where we say, sure it passes the Turing test but moves goalposts - then that’s pretty exciting!
Yea it's exciting that goalposts are being moved, but I think it's fine call it "just x" when the collective understanding of it outpaces the actual technology.
Its a big accomplishment to move these goalposts, but it's not much closer to "ai" than it was before the goalpost was moved. "Just because" we're better at making an algorithm that can guess the next line of English text given the preceding ones, does that justify companies branding their products as "artificial intelligence" and trick someone less knowledgeable about the implementation into believing it's more than it is?