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  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldpeople are just shitty
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    2 days ago

    Seems to me the city did something for show that doesn’t work, and might as well no be there.
    As I sted before, the poles and trashcan are not vandalized, it seem like these “lockers” were clearly targeted, probably because it’s a shit system for the people it was supposed to benefit.
    Hopefully after this, the city will stop wasting money on a system that doesn’t work anyway.



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    public equipment lockers

    I don’t get it, why would such lockers be labeled “Jumpstart bon depart” and Equip at the bottom?
    Looks more like some private thing, taking up public space.
    IDK, I’m just trying to evaluate if this is just mindless vandalism, or if there could be a reason behind it.
    The pole itself is not vandalized and seemingly neither is the trashcan behind.









  • IDK I’ve predicted my own birthday and Christmas correctly dozens of times.
    I even predicted in the year 2000 that AI would become a thing around 2030, I admit that’s the most bulls eye long term prediction I’ve ever made. But still to make a blanket statement that it is unknowable is false.
    There are trajectories, and there are statistics that can predict a lot.
    Like for instance many of us predicted Russia would lose the war against Ukraine already a couple of months in.
    And it was predicted 2 years ago that USA would go to war with Iran and lose.
    I can also predict that the return of Jesus Christ will not happen within the next 2000 years either!

    In fact the entire purpose about humans having consciousness from an evolutionary perspective, is to serve as a mechanism for predictions based on experience to improve our rate of survival.


  • Nope, there’s nothing wrong with the test. It wasn’t designed to test if it was “strong AI”

    That was EXACTLY what it was designed for, the argument being that if it is indistinguishably from a human, it has human like intelligence. Human like intelligence includes consciousness, and consciousness means strong AI.

    Computers are “thinking” routinely. Chess programs that have existed since the 80’s are already proof of that.

    The most well known philosophical challenge to the Turing test is probably the Chinese room, which is an obviously flawed thought experiment, because it introduces human intelligence to the system in an attempt to disprove that human intelligence is present.

    There’s plenty of humans that would struggle with counting the number of “r” in Strawberry

    I wrote a normal human", not people with way below average intelligence.
    Notice I wrote count which means they can be presented with the correct spelling if needed.
    Spelling it wrong would be a very human thing to do.


  • It is widely acknowledged that many modern AI chat bots can indeed pass the Turing test as well as an actual human, maybe even better.

    So the new problem is that something is wrong with the Turing test, and we need to come up with something better.
    Because nobody sensible recognize current state of AI to be anywhere near strong AI.
    Or maybe we are performing the Turing test wrong? It can probably not be called a proper Turing test, unless it’s someone particularly skilled in it that performs it. Someone able to detect the answers without actual human experience behind them.

    We know AI can have very basic problems, like not being able to count the number of “r” in strawberry correctly, and act very confused about it when it’s explained that there are 3, and asked to spell the word out and count them.

    If the AI had consciousness and comparable intelligence to a normal human, such banal things should not confuse the AI.
    So we need to understand the limitations better, to be better at testing them.