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Sometimes i use the ugly spoon because i feel sad for it.
Yep, this is the major flaw that's becoming clear about the Turing test, and why people are so hyped over LLMs: computers don't have to be good at imitating people, because people are so good at anthropomorphizing computers (along with everything else).
You ask someone if the ugly spoon is human, they know it's not.
We asked people if they were talking to a human, and it said yes.
These are not the same.
I see it as the opposite, and now that it's getting uncomfortably close to seeming human, that makes people uncomfortable and so we are rejecting the turing test in favor of.. what? It seems like nothing. It's convenient that what makes us human is intangible.
FYI, "anthropomorphizing" doesn't strictly mean "viewing as human". I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.
Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.
My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing "unhappiness" to a spoon simply for being unused.
This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine "intelligence" - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it's our nature.
I didn't say they were the same thing; my whole point is that they are different. We're talking about people thinking they're talking to a human, compared to people attributing a single human attribute to a spoon. But probably not even really for the latter because if you ask someone if the spoon is actually sad, most everyone will say no.
We are the Pinnacle of creation! Nothing can be better than us by definition! Even the thought that a mere complex computer can be a person is heresy and absurd and can only be answered by ridicule and mockery. /s
Unfortunately a lot of professional philosophers think a bit like the above :(