Alan Turing
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Sep 12, 2026
Josh AddisonHOST
So that's kind of spiralism.
Josh AddisonHOST
I thought it's probably worth mentioning at the end that this really does sort of bump up against the good old-fashioned Turing test.
Josh AddisonHOST
I had never actually gone and looked at what the actual Turing test was, although I had heard that it's not...
Josh AddisonHOST
The Turing test isn't, can a computer convince a person that they're a real person? The original test proposed by Alan Turing was, can a computer do well in the imitation game? And he initially, in this, we just brought this up, he rejected the initial question, can a computer think or is a computer conscious? Because we don't actually have a good handle.
Josh AddisonHOST
I'm asking you as a philosopher, do we have a decent handle on what it means to think and to be conscious? at this
M. R. X. DentithHOST
time no we have what's called the hard problem of consciousness and we can't really we don't really have an account as to why we're conscious in the first place let alone what actually constitutes consciousness or indeed where consciousness is actually located we just know that we appear to have it there are some people who deny that we are conscious we appear to have consciousness, and it's really quite mysterious.
Josh AddisonHOST
So because we don't have a decent definition of what consciousness means, we can't even begin to ask, are computers conscious? We don't even know what it means to say that we are.
Josh AddisonHOST
So he has this idea of, can a computer do well in the imitation game? And the imitation game is a party game, presumably from the 1940s or whenever Turing was doing this, when people didn't have iPods.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
Y sostiene que muchos de los que trabajan en esas compañías saben muy bien que están jugando con nuestras vidas y que es muy probable que en cosa de diez años la IA llegue a provocar una catástrofe para la humanidad de proporciones inimaginables.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
Según Nick Bostrom, filósofo sueco de la Universidad de Oxford, si la inteligencia artificial superara a la humanidad en inteligencia general y se volviera superinteligente, entonces podría volverse difícil o imposible de controlar para los humanos.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
Así como el destino del gorila de montaña depende de la buena voluntad humana, el destino de la humanidad podría depender, óiganme bien, de las acciones de una futura superinteligencia mecánica.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
[risa] Sin palabras.
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José David PinoGUEST
En ese sentido, Colombia como nación no está preparada para esa nueva actualización de infraestructura y también nuevas tecnologías a nivel de ciberseguridad e inteligencia artificial que están saliendo recientemente.
José David PinoGUEST
En ese sentido, hay una estimación bastante elevada de ciberataques en los próximos años y todavía no hay indicios de implementaciones de defensas autónomas en el país para poder proteger los datos de los colombianos, que es uno de los mayores problemas, por ejemplo.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
El filósofo Yuval Harari, que ha escrito mucho sobre el impacto de las redes en la condición humana, sostiene que la inteligencia artificial no es una simple herramienta, sino el primer agente tecnológico capaz de tomar decisiones independientes y de crear una nueva información por sí mismo.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
Pero si nos vamos a los científicos, pues vamos a encontrar que Alan Turing, que fue el que creó el computador, pues la situación es aún más evidente.
Valerie VeachGUEST
It's interesting.
Valerie VeachGUEST
He then publishes Alan Turing's essay, The Thinking Machine, the following year.
Valerie VeachGUEST
That asks the question, can machines think? And whatever we want to say about spirituality, that is an impossible conversation to have now and an impossible conversation to arrive at anything concrete.
Valerie VeachGUEST
But when we remove that... level of enchantment or this level of kind of mysticism or mystery.
Ben CardallHOST
The form never really went away with that either.
Ben CardallHOST
Modern poets, they still build them on purpose, sometimes as a party trick, sometimes as something closer to a seance, just pulling a line from writers like Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, and then setting them to each other inside the same poem.
Ben CardallHOST
One poet built a cento entirely out of other people's lines and gave it a title borrowed from Edward Lear on top of the borrowed words underneath it.
Ben CardallHOST
There's a line between a cento and a plagiarism, though, and it's not really a literary line.
Juska ChaffeyHOST
[upbeat music]AI may feel like a brand-new invention, but the idea has been with us for decades.
Juska ChaffeyHOST
Back in the 1950s, the British mathematician Alan Turing asked his famous question: Can machines think? That single question sparked a scientific quest that continues to this day.
Juska ChaffeyHOST
In the early years, researchers built programs that could play chess or solve basic math problems.
Juska ChaffeyHOST
Exciting at first, but progress soon slowed, and for a while, many believed AI was just a dream that might never come true.
Daniel KokotajloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On the contrary, people have been warning about this since before the AI companies existed.
Daniel KokotajloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You can see many luminaries from the past, even Alan Turing, way back to the beginning of computer science.
Daniel KokotajloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
People have been talking about how if we build AIs that are broadly superhuman and put those AIs in charge of things, then that could go disastrously wrong and result in human extinction.
Marco WermanHOST
Well, I come back to some of these big players in big tech who are building this AI universe, including Elon Musk, who say they are aware.
Malcolm NanceHOST
And it literally steered me to towards cryptology as a cryptologic linguist, which I have recently learned.
Malcolm NanceHOST
Alan Turing was not a linguist.
Malcolm NanceHOST
You know, I used to make this joke.
Malcolm NanceHOST
What is he, just a German linguist? But in fact, was just an incredible mathematician.
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Malcolm NanceHOST
Brilliant.
Malcolm NanceHOST
You know, in the movie Imitation Game, which if anybody has not watched that movie, you need to watch it for two reasons.
Malcolm NanceHOST
One, to really understand Alan Turing is a real genius, right? So much a genius, he's on your money now.
Malcolm NanceHOST
He is, he's on my money now.
GriffinHOST
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GriffinHOST
Peter Gabriel, David Koresh, Alan Turing, Robert Smith, Ty Cobb, John Waters, George Whitefield, Javid Lynch, H.L. Mencken, Pope Clement V, and the Abagnon Papacy.
GriffinHOST
Fuck the haters.
GriffinHOST
Shit was a time when everything was pimped out.
Amjad MasadGUEST
I like to read about, you know, How were computers invented? How is programming invented? Obviously, this is the birthplace of computing.
Amjad MasadGUEST
Alan Turing invented the computer here.
Amjad MasadGUEST
And so there's a historical aspect of this place.
Amjad MasadGUEST
You know, AI was also partly birthed here with DeepMind and there was the Lee Soo Dol kind of first DeepMind moment where it was for the first time that everyone saw that AI could actually do things that we thought were just for humans, like the game of Go.
Daniel KokotajloGUEST
On the contrary, people have been warning about this since before the AI companies existed.
Daniel KokotajloGUEST
You can see many luminaries from the past, even Alan Turing, way back to the beginning of computer science.
Daniel KokotajloGUEST
People have been talking about how if we build AIs that are broadly superhuman and put those AIs in charge of things, then that could go disastrously wrong and result in human extinction.
Marco WermanHOST
Well, I come back to some of these big players in big tech who are building this AI universe, including Elon Musk, who say they are aware.
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