In other words,you’re in the normal progression. Munroe is, in this case as in so many others, atypical among the human population.
Let’s see:
Eratosthenes
Galileo
Franklin
Fleming
Pavlov
Newton
am I missing anyone?
And let’s not forget that she and her daughter had three Nobel Prizes between them.
I still haven’t seen any yet this year, but then, I haven’t been out much in the evenings. I need to make an effort at that: Catching a lightning bug is the last item on my checklist for it to be officially summer.
My daughter caught her first one last night
I took my dogs out at just the right time a few nights ago, and the neighbor’s yard was just covered in fireflies. The little girl dog was fascinated. Then she became concerned. Then she yipped at them.
Last night, there were only a few out, but one flew close, and I caught it. It crawled around on my hand, and I showed it to the little girl dog. Oh, a new friend!
Then it blinked. Now she’s afraid of fireflies, too.
I don’t get it. Have I failed the Turing test?
I think the joke is that only having AI researchers train AIs, just teaches the AIs how to be AI researchers.
They also seem to be ignoring each other and just pontificating, rather than trying to solve the actual problems AI are expected to solve. In other words, they seem to be just as obsessed as a good AI researcher has to be.
I dunno; the one on the left seems to be responding to something (apparently an inversion of the Chinese Room thought experiment, where it’s an AI in the room instead of a human).
The one on the left is talking about the “AI in a box” experiment
Even casual conversation with the computer’s operators, or with a human guard, could allow such a superintelligent AI to deploy psychological tricks, ranging from befriending to blackmail, to convince a human gatekeeper, truthfully or deceitfully, that it is in the gatekeeper’s interest to agree to allow the AI greater access to the outside world. The AI might offer a gatekeeper a recipe for perfect health, immortality, or whatever the gatekeeper is believed to most desire; on the other side of the coin, the AI could threaten that it will do horrific things to the gatekeeper and his family once it inevitably escapes.
So, does it pass or fail the Turing test if it can’t be differentiated from an AI researcher?
There doesn’t seem to be anyone there that they (or any of the other AI) are actually responding to. And they’re all ignoring each other. And the humans seem to be uninterested, as the one with hair is clearly facing away from them.
I think what’s happening is that the AIs have taken over the world and are now endlessly talking at humans.
I see it as the opposite - IMO she’s looking toward the AI on page right, and the guy to the one on page left, while walking toward each other (for comfort?).
The bike ride from NYC to LA from September 2-13 checks out. Using google maps without stoppping at about 12 MPH it takes just under 12 days