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We’re living in an era where the line between reality and virtuality is blurring at an unprecedented pace. I mean, it’s 2023, and here we are, asking ourselves whether the entity we’re chatting with is a fellow human or a sophisticated AI. The question begs itself — can we really tell the difference? And, more importantly, is there a true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or is it all just clever mimicry?
Let’s start with the basics. Humans are messy. Our conversations are filled with ums and ahs, sprinkled with emotions, and colored by personal experiences. AI, on the other hand, tends to be more systematic, more precise. But that’s not always the case, is it? Some AIs are designed to mimic human imperfections, to throw in an occasional typo or a misplaced comma to seem more ‘human.’
Imagine a simple Python function that adds ‘humanlike’ errors to text:
import randomdef add_humanlike_errors(text):
errors = ['...', 'um', 'ah', '...', '!', '?']
words = text.split()
# Insert a random error after a random word
insert_at = random.randint(0, len(words) - 1)
words.insert(insert_at, random.choice(errors))
return ' '.join(words)
original_text = "I'm sure AI will surpass human intelligence soon."
print(add_humanlike_errors(original_text))
This function randomly inserts typical human conversational errors into a given text. See what I mean? Clever mimicry. But does this make an AI seem truly human? Not quite. There’s a whole lot more to being human than just linguistic imperfections.
Now, let’s talk AGI — a level of artificial intelligence that can understand, learn, and apply its intelligence broadly and flexibly, just like a human brain. We’re not there yet, but the progress is startling. The difference between a narrow AI (like the one you use to play chess or recommend movies) and AGI is like comparing a one-trick pony to a polymath genius. But how do you spot this difference?
The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a classic example. A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with both a human and a machine and has to determine…