Q:
What do you think differentiates a human from a machine?
Do you think we will be replaced? Do you think Turing’s test is a good representation of deciding which is which?
A:
Machines are only as good as their makers and programers. Things we have evolved to be good at like social interaction, walking and movement are things computers cannot do very well. However logic, erasing and arithmetic are pretty new inventions and computers have already outstripped us there.
However emulating things like emotion, empathy, and other very social things, even what a soul is. Programmers cannot program a soul. Programmers can try to emulate feelings and empathy but right now its not in a very good place. In the future computers might be able to do things like this.
Will we be replaced? A good example to look at is car manufacturing. Machines completely changed the way that industry works. It replaced many jobs inside those factories. In terms of becoming completely replaced I don't know if we would ever see something like that. Humans might become threatened but then we would probably just put limitations upon robots for as long as we could.
Turing's test is flawed because it does not measure anything scientifically. Deciding which is which is hard to do, but a good point was that when trying not to be tricked sometimes a human would assign one of the humans in the test to be a computer! It was more of a psychological experiment than anything else.
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