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Kevin Kelly: Help Wanted – AI Whisperers

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Centaur Model, Half Human, Half Machine

The traditional way to test whether or not AI is successful at impersonating a human is the touring test proposed by Alan Turing, the British mathematician. But I asked an AI posing as touring if we had reached that point yet and I got a lot of gobble to go back. We actually passed it point long ago when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasbroff in chess. This is two decades ago. In most cases, we really won't care. Like in the Hollywood movie, who cares whether it's special effects or live action? The Centaur model is what we call it, half human, half machine. And those two together, doctoring is another one,. There'll be people who

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