[LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

[David Lochrin]

On 2016-07-30 23:59 Stephen Loosley wrote:

> The best way to understand the test is to see a few samples in action. Take this question: 
> 
> "The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big. What was too big?"
> 
> The trophy, obviously, because if the suitcase was too big the sentence wouldn't make sense. But bots still struggle with this kind of language.
> [...]
> As Will Knight reports at the MIT Technology Review, this kind of understanding is difficult to create from statistical analysis (which is what computers are good at), but also takes an impossibly long time to code by hand.
> 
> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601897/tougher-turing-test-exposes-chatbots-stupidity/
> 
> "It's unsurprising that machines were barely better than chance," said one of the contest's advisors, research psychologist Gary Marcus from New York University.

Perhaps they could have tried that old school favourite "The residents fled from the fire in their pyjamas".

All this demonstrates how AI is essentially statistical analysis, but that isn't how consciousness works.

David L.