@gingy2828
This channel is a diamond in the rough. Great content.
@ervinm.5065
can't stop thinking about the youtube algorithm giving high five to himself yelling "good job ME!" that's so fun
@cognitivefailure
In discussions like this I think it's important to distinguish between "intelligence" and "consciousness" -- one does not necessarily imply the other, and they have very different definitions, requirements, and implications. Westworld's hosts, for instance, would easily pass most Turing Tests, and behave in a manner which I believe most people would concede is intelligent; but whether they're actually conscious is another question altogether. (Actually I think the show has pretty much already answered that in the affirmative as well, and unfortunately thereby obviated most of the really interesting questions it might address -- but we'll see what next season brings.) Anyway, here's some suggestions for topics to dive into if you have any future videos on the subject: Searle's Chinese Room; qualia; p-zombies; metacognition; The Hard Problem; and maybe Godel's incompleteness theorems. I'd love to hear your take on any or all of them. (BTW: This is the very first time I've commented on a video ever. Kudos on prying a lifelong lurker out of his shell!)
@mcgeufer
So there will be happy cat cat videos soon. It´s about time.
@1wolfcubb
great video! and congrats on adopting a cat. She is adorable 😎
@Eric.Clay.
This video made me click the Youtube notification bell for the first time :) Not only informative, but also pleasant to listen to. Well done.
@motiosmo1864
Great topic for a video! I think you are right about defining what "thinking" is, I also always believed that we have a problem defining "consciousness" to determine whether a machine can be conscious or not, and that need to be the first step before we can make one at all.
@pabloo.o1912
I don't know how I reached your channel but I love it! You got a new subscriber!
@Selestrielle
Very great video. Westworld managed to make the audience empathise with the hosts by giving them humanoid physical form, but "real" AI have been under our noses for years on countless of websites. People probably wouldn't relate as much to Dolores if she wasn't a hot babe. :/ PS: Congrats on the cat!
@migs_dotcom
please do more videos. you are good at this and already have a following. this could easily be your full time job
@poodlelord
Gratz on the new furbaby! You are not crazy for doing a cat stream, the internet was invented so people could share pictures of their cats.
@sdmarlow3926
Earlier today I was wondering if Westworld could be some off world colony in the Blade Runner universe, and this video brings things full circle because of the whole giving hosts/replicants memories thing. (Side note: both deal with the Halting Problem; with Westworld forcing a daily reboot and Blade Runner building-in a 4 year lifespan).
@Benny_Blue
I'd like to take this opportunity to talk a bit about another part of Turing's work: Turing Machines. For those unfamiliar with Turing Machines, they are essentially the idea of making a single function into a computer. This may seem pointless, until you learn what a Universal Turing Machine is. The UTM is the idea of the perfect modern processor, able to solve any problem when given the right inputs for the single function, which is why it is Universal. However, Turing proved there is one problem with any realistic Turing machine: there is no way to know when it is caught in an endless loop by looking at the function it is given. I'm sure every programmer here has had the issue of a program getting stuck forever, until you intervene. The reason the computer doesn't stop for you is because even with all of its power, it can't tell, even in the moment. If I may go Trekkie for a bit, the perfect Vulcan would be a machine completely of logic, correct? Nearly identical to a computer. So, wouldn't the perfect Vulcan eventually get stuck in an endless loop, unable to know when it's thinking process would continue? Perhaps you might say what sets humans apart from computers is our ability to keep out of a loop. However, we have learned here that there is no exception to this rule in the real world, so humans must have such a flaw, right? May I propose that humans do suffer from this, in the form of anxiety? Running back and forth between options, running through tasks over and over in avoidance? Doesn't that fit the bill? And as for unrealistic solutions to the problem, my personal favorite is the Alternating Universal Turing Machine (AUTM). Let's say you want to have a loop completed in two time units, U. However, this loop is an endless loop, which would keep a normal UTM running forever. So, an AUTM completes the first iteration in 1 U, the second iteration in 1/2 U, the third in 1/4 U, the fourth in 1/8 U, and so on. Do you see the brilliance here? After 2U have passed, the loop is completed, and the program moves on. Obviously, this is impossible, but it's still amazing!
@nucleisoft9067
your quite right there thehappiecat when you said a child's brain is more complicated than an adult brain, the way the brain learns is to cut off neural connections and we learn something so to reinforce what we learnt, so technically a child's brain is more complex connection wise but has less understanding so would be better to program or learn it to program its self.
@pete275
I think Turing posed an interesting question, but with the imitation game he stumbled upon something that humans actually do to other humans all the time, but wouldn't work on an AI. When a human meets someone new, they make small talk, I think to subconsciously "evaluate" them, for example you get into a cab, you ask about the weather; if the driver makes a normal response, it means he's a normal human that is capable of driving a car. If he can't make a normal response, maybe he has afacia and is having a stroke, so it's not a good idea to get into his cab. It's something humans evolved because we needed to determine pretty fast if a stranger is trustworthy, that's why people feel uneasy around someone who is socially awkward, and they can't explain why. But it works on humans because humans are a standard model, they all come from the same factory, so we're able to use a small part of the human to extrapolate and diagnose the entire system. If a human is able to form coherent sentences, then we know there's a bunch of other subsystems in their brains that are working correctly, we can take one part and extrapolate to the whole. But with AIs we can't do that, because they don't all come from the same factory, we don't necessarily know how they were built and how to diagnose them, so if an AI can make small talk about the weather, it doesn't necessarily mean that it can drive a taxi, it just means it can make small talk about the weather. The other problem is that the Turing Test assumes that human social interaction is the apex of intelligence, which is not, the simplest evidence is that some humans are not capable of social interaction, and they're still considered intelligent. In fact we have no idea what it is that makes us uniquely intelligent, is it our "free will", our ability to make decisions, or our ability to understand our own existence, and to think about it, and understand the difference between existing and not existing? None of those things require social abilities, but those are the things that would make an AI actually stand out from just a normal computer program that is unable to "think"
@carlosmorazan1714
It's agreed by some (including myself) that good enough imitation equals "thinking" for most intents and purposes. If the human mind is actually subject to quantum processes, well that's another story lol. By the way, really loving your cat!!!
@LemonadeMouthSomebod
On the same topic, you should really check out the puzzle game The Turing Test on Steam, it has some great thought provoking dialogue.
@niboe1312
Well, I was having an okay day before, but after this video it's more of a happie day.
@Bergerons_Review
Thank God for University access. I just downloaded the paper gonna be a good read.
@BudgiePanic