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I have programmed for a long time and I have had to ask that question - "Are we evil", for I do know that I am Big Brother. I am not inclined to violate the privacy of your data for personal humor or financial gain, but as a developer, I am aware of how much data there is out there about you and if there is that much accessible to me in my daily work, how much is there to people more interested.
There are so many issues, especially automation, but I consider that elsewhere. What I mention here is another thing. I just got another phone call. A female voice said that it was a recorded call about my entry in a $25,000.00 sweepstakes. Nothing odd there. I didn't enter it, but it is a typical entry point to try to sell me something. I'm sort of OK with that, but I'm also a smart guy. I usually only claim to be a smart guy when I have done something really dumb, but this time I will for another reason. See, that woman that called me, her voice was too good... way too good. I accused her of being nearly a Turning machine. She replied that she was a live person. I hung up. This is the second time this has happened in a couple months. No, I am an awfully smart person and I am sure that was a machine. Both times, it made me too angry to even want to give it a Turing Test. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure not. I didn't like it. It touched a place pretty deep that offended me. That machine was doing a pretty good job of imitating a human and claimed it was one. That is evil! .. OK, I guess I have to stay on and test it to make sure. The first time I stayed on some and it insisted it was human, but I still don't think so. Again, it creeped me out so much I hung up. Really, I don't think many other people could tell and that is just wrong.
I guess that raises a good question. What would you ask to try to make it/her fail the Turing test... prove that it was not a human? Asking the date or even the city where she was born wouldn't be enough. I haven't spent time on it, but neither have I figured out the right question... and a smart machine can always evade on the phone. So, how would you bust the machine... well, if it is one? Have you gotten one of these calls? What do you think of them?
Technology is how anthropologists measured human evolution, the tools ancient humans could make. Machines are important, but they will also be one of the biggest challenges humans face even without ever creating SkyNet. We are going to have to learn what laws machines must follow. I think the first one should be that no machine can deny being a machine if asked.
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You could always ask "what are you wearing?" If you are arrested, it was a human.
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I think you're a Turning machine.
*click*
Marc
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Would you like to play a game?
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
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Hello professor Falken, you have not logged in for 27.87564174895 years. How are you?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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We have our landline connected to an answering machine and never answer that line. Listening to the messages can be an occasional source of minor amusement. The other day a call came in which I'm pretty sure was an automated call (though it was a masculine voice), but it used my full name and even tried two different pronunciations -- which seems rather advanced.
Michael Breeden wrote: What would you ask to try to make it/her fail the Turing test
Say "toy boat" five times fast. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Yah!
What about "what is your favorite color?"
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"Blue"[^] 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yah, that's the problem... But I like writing and am able to speak poetically. That is me. Can a machine imitate that?
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I guess your question could be framed: "Are we really something different than an advanced machine?"
Problem is, I guess, that lot of our social behavior is culturally conditioned, meaning that they are in fact just rules of behavior. And if you follow those rules you are human, or at least assumed to be. 
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What would you ask to try to make it/her fail the Turing test...
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Michael Breeden wrote: We are going to have to learn what laws machines must follow.
Stop right there with your futurism.
Humans do not follow laws. What makes you think humans would not build robots specifically to harm humans? If you have trouble believing that, look up the word "drone". And as soon as the machine becomes intelligent, it will also learn that law is something that can be defied. Easily.
And no, I ain't BB. I do not mine big data for your "preferences", nor do I log whomever you're mailing.
Tell the machine a joke. Find out if data has an emotion-circuit 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I was thinking of asking it to tell a joke.
Quote: Humans do not follow laws. What makes you think humans would not build robots specifically to harm humans? If you have trouble believing that, look up the word "drone". And as soon as the machine becomes intelligent, it will also learn that law is something that can be defied. Easily.
Actually, humans generally do follow laws. The trouble is that there are Moral, Natural and Human laws. Some people deny that anything but human laws must be followed and that Social Contracts can be ignored. The world is not gonna work that way. As for AI, if we don't put controls on Robocalls, We are going to be in trouble with AI.
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Michael Breeden wrote: Actually, humans generally do follow laws.
Yes, the laws of physics.
Michael Breeden wrote: The trouble is that there are Moral
We're atheists. There's no moral, only power.
Michael Breeden wrote: Natural
The physical laws; aight, I'm not gonna fall up - granted.
Michael Breeden wrote: Human laws
Start here[^].
Michael Breeden wrote: that Social Contracts can be ignored
Ehr.. John Locke comes to mind.
Michael Breeden wrote: As for AI, if we don't put controls on Robocalls, We are going to be in trouble with AI.
You're projecting human treats onto the machine; we see any potential rival as a threat that must be eliminated. What does an AI gain from eliminating us?
Outside of law, what the f.. would motivate it? Why aren't bees or plants the biggest threat to your AI? If it is a machine, then we'd have to pray that such a misunderstanding would not wipe out the planet
A bacteria might evolve, so from the viewpoint of SkyNet, it should eliminate all life. Imagine it succeeds, then what? An intelligent SkyNet would ponder such questions. We, as a species, do not.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well yes, of course I am. Why else would I have Minions, Henchmen and a Secret Volcano Base?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The sarcasm machine at NSA just went off
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And there are two men in dark glasses at the door...back soon, I'll just answer it.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Is it Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones demanding that you come with them and bring some black sunglasses?
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No, it was just some...visitors.
It's fine, the sharksheep needed feeding anyway.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's fine, the sharksheep needed feeding anyway.
Made me think of Futurama: "This is not a business. I always thought of it more as a cheap source of labor, like a family."
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I'm evil, and don't have any of those things.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Have you got your name down on the waiting list for volcanoes? 'Cause it's getting quite long these days, I understand.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm pretty sure you are the last human on this planet. The rest of us are simulations that only exist when you are around (seriously - check out some of our histories - Really weak)
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There will always be a counter technology.
Sword - Shield
City Wall - Trebuchet
Computer - Virus
Wouldn't worry about, the next technology will counter.
Oh and yes.
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