E.S.P. and A.I.
I was doing the set reading titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing in which he describes the Turing test for machine intelligence, when I came across something I did not expect to see. One of the arguments against the test he discusses involves extra-sensory perception where the human participant guesses a card statistically higher than average due to telepathy but the computer does not, clearly showing which participant is what. He can only suggest to hold the test in a “telepathy-proof room” to counter this. It impresses me that he simply does not dismiss E.S.P., but recognises that it may be a factor where thinking is invovled and notes that “… the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.”
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