The benefits of natural stupidity

Alan Kay once said that the thing to worry about is not artificial intelligence. The thing to worry about is natural stupidity.

I mentioned this recently to Jaron Lanier. He pointed out that this has an interesting side effect: It makes it easier for an AI to pass the Turing test.

After all, if you put an artificial intelligent computer at one terminal, and a naturally stupid person at the other, it might be impossible to tell the difference.

2 thoughts on “The benefits of natural stupidity”

  1. What do we call the test of observing the interaction between the NS and the AI and determining who is who? The Meta-Turing Test? The MAGA-Turing test?

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