Patrick (orthonormal), if we’re going to change the meaning of the term that dramatically, we might as well run about being terrified of ant colonies. They meet all of the criteria you mention, after all. Shouldn’t we be afraid they’ll turn the entire world into their hive?
Like ‘grey goo’ nanotech scenarios, runaway self-improving AI is a conceivable danger, but almost certainly not a likely one. The obstacles in the way of robust general intelligence, as those in the way of total or even partial mass conversion, are quite prohibitive.
On a more serious note, Eliza only fooled people 1) back before there were lots of chatbots, so the idea of a computer conversation wouldn’t tend to enter into people’s minds and 2) who thought they were talking to a psychotherapist, which establishes such low expectations for intelligence and coherence of conversation that it’s not really a fair test of the ability to masquerade as human.
Even the successful chatbots only operate in domains where conversations are inanely stupid.
Patrick (orthonormal), if we’re going to change the meaning of the term that dramatically, we might as well run about being terrified of ant colonies. They meet all of the criteria you mention, after all. Shouldn’t we be afraid they’ll turn the entire world into their hive?
Like ‘grey goo’ nanotech scenarios, runaway self-improving AI is a conceivable danger, but almost certainly not a likely one. The obstacles in the way of robust general intelligence, as those in the way of total or even partial mass conversion, are quite prohibitive.
On a more serious note, Eliza only fooled people 1) back before there were lots of chatbots, so the idea of a computer conversation wouldn’t tend to enter into people’s minds and 2) who thought they were talking to a psychotherapist, which establishes such low expectations for intelligence and coherence of conversation that it’s not really a fair test of the ability to masquerade as human.
Even the successful chatbots only operate in domains where conversations are inanely stupid.