Computing Machinery and Intelligence

You nailed it.

It is the paperclip maximizer.

It illustrates how an AI doesn't need to be evil or hate humans to destroy civilization.

It just needs a goal with no bounds.

If a super intelligence is told to maximize clip production, it will logically convert Earth, humans, and solar systems into paperclip factories.

It's the ultimate cautionary tale in AI safety.

The world doesn't end with a supervillain robot.

Simon is correct.

In his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing opened with, I propose to consider the question, can machines think? He immediately recognized the difficulty of defining both machine and thinking.

Rather than attempting to resolve centuries of philosophical debate about intelligence, consciousness and thought, he proposed replacing the question with one that was more amenable to investigation.

But, yeah, I mean, it's fine.

Yeah.

Uh, and Turing himself, I recently reread that paper of Turing's, uh, Computing Machine, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, I think it was called, and he s- you know, s- says that if you can't tell the difference between the output of this thing and a human, then it really is intelligent.

And at the very end, he says, "Well, but do you know whether it's conscious or not?" He says, "Oh, that's a completely different question.

We never can really be sure that any other creature-

And did I mention terrifying? But the idea of artificial humanity continues to grow over time, becoming the plot of countless books and films and lecture discussions.

The latter peaks in 1950, when scientist Alan Turing publishes Computer Machinery and Intelligence, in which he poses the question, can machines think? And he devises a test later known as the Turing test to do it.

If you'd like to know more about his theory, I can't tell you because Oxford wouldn't let me read it.

What Turing's work did more than anything was really solidify amongst the scholarly community the possibility of a truly artificial intelligence.

I know John McCarthy coined that in 1952 at the Dartmouth conference.

It was really prompted by Alan Turing's 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, where Turing, because he was a visionary man, really saw this time where AI would run alongside us and eventually surpass us.

And of course, he started the Turing test.

But we have to remember the whole reason that Alan Turing devised the Turing test to begin with was because when he was writing his paper, he dusted down the long dead Ada Lovelace that nobody had thought about for 100 years.

It's the imitation game.

The paper is Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

And it really kickstarts sort of theoretical debates, I guess, at least, around a lot of these issues.

It's an essay that's also remarkable for suggesting that one of the main objections or one of the main potential problems to instituting the Turing test is the existence of telepathy, which Turing thought probable.

So if we go back a bit of a history lesson, 1950, Pat, there was an English mathematician called Alan Turing.

And he published a paper titled Computer Machinery and Intelligence.

And it proposed a test of what's called machine intelligence, which was termed the imitation game.

There was a movie about it.