I was having a conversation with a friend this evening about A.I. He was expressing how amazing it is that you can have what feels like a perfectly intelligent conversation with one of today’s chatbots.<\/p>\n
The chatbot will generally understand what you say, and will usually give cogent and insightful responses. He was expressing wonderment that a mere machine can do that.<\/p>\n
Our conversation reminded me of an experience I had many years ago at the annual Siggraph computer graphics conference. Just before the film show, there was an audience experiment.<\/p>\n
Everyone in the audience was given a ping pong paddle which was green on one side, and red on the other. In the back of the auditorium was a video camera, which fed into a computer that figured out which way each audience member’s paddle was facing.<\/p>\n
At one point the audience was divided into left and right half, and we collectively played a game of Pong. The left half of the audience controlled the left player’s Pong paddle (green face-forward for up, red face-forward for down), and the right half of the audience controlled the right player’s Pong paddle.<\/p>\n
The game started out slow, but then got faster and faster. No matter how fast it went, the audience played a perfect game — at speeds much faster than any single human being could have matched.<\/p>\n
To me, this provides the key insight into why those chatbots seem so intelligent. More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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