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5 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
1950
Alan Turing described the Turing test in a 1950 paper, with only a few lines on it and a suggestion that fifteen minutes of conversation could suffice.
“the 1950 paper where he had articulated the Turing test, he there's like a few lines that, uh, talk about the Turing test”
Undated
Ransbotham describes the Turing test as asking whether a machine can fool a person into thinking it is human, and says people have been chasing it for years.
“can this machine act in such a way that it fools you into thinking it's a person versus a machine? This is the Alan Turing test from long ago that we're all super familiar with.”
Undated
Geoffrey Hinton says John von Neumann and Alan Turing both believed in brain-modelled AI, and that AI's history would have differed had either lived longer.
“Early on, von Neumann believed it and Turing believed it. And if either of those had lived, I think AI would have had a very different history.”
Undated
Carvalho attributes the substitution approach to AI to Alan Turing and the human-complementing alternative to Norbert Wiener.
“which is really w proposed by Alan Turing, right? How do we develop something that substitutes for human? But there was an alternative line of work developed by Norbert Wiener”
Undated
Erik Brynjolfsson calls the focus on using AI only to replace or imitate workers the 'Turing trap', after Alan Turing's imitation test.
“I call it the Turing trap because I think that it's a trap to only focus on using AI to replace or imitate workers.”
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