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"The Regression Test" by Wole Talabi

LeVar Burton Reads

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The Reconstruction of the Red Matrix

The test usually concludes with a person who knew the original human subject, me in this case, asking the AI questions to determine the same thing. At the end of the experiment, the previous versions judge whether the new versions' answers are close enough to those they would give for the update to still be considered them or could only have been produced by a completely different entity. Or, as Tungi summarized once, the test verifies that the AI remains recognizable to itself and others, even as it continuously improves.

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