In this short post I have selected one novel argument from an undergraduate essay I wrote in 2021 on the Turing test for artificial intelligence. The title of the essay was “If we could make a computer that performed well in the ‘Imitation Game’ proposed by Alan Turing. What, if anything, would that teach us about our own minds?”. I am not by any means an expert in this field and I haven’t explored this puzzle much further but here I raise a counter to Turing’s thesis which shows at if a computer had the same sort of subjective experiences that we would expect from human intelligence the Turing Test or ‘Imitation Game’ would select for unintelligent chat-bots over intelligent computers. I hope to discuss any solutions to the communication problem I outline below and see if there is any redeemable way of an intelligent computer communicating that it is truly intelligent.

Indeed it would be hard to then tell if there is as gyhle put it there ever was a ‘ghost inside the machine’

Wittgenstein “language game”

Turing Test – testing for artificial unintelligence? / Liam McLaughlin by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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