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Why Machines Will Never Rule the World

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The Stasi Turing Test

If it's impossible for us to create a machine that has an artificial general intelligence, then there must be some test that machines will fail and humans will pass. So in the book we rather dismiss the original form of the Turing test because it's too simplistic. In principle you could pass the test if you can just get three out of five people to say that for three minutes the machines was not distinguishable from a computer. What we promote in the book is what we call the Stasi Turing test. It would be from three to five hours, which is the rough length of a Stasi interrogation. The interrogator would be a trained officer of the Stasi who is trained to detect lies

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