Gigaom AI Minute – May 10

Transcript

The science fiction writer Ian McDonald said, “Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know how to fail it.” George Dyson echoed that sentiment when he said, “A real artificial intelligence would be intelligent enough not to reveal that it was genuinely intelligent.”

I don't know if this is the case, but it does invite one to ask, is there any chance that we have working AI systems that are in fact intelligent and haven't revealed themselves? Well, there’s no way to really know for sure. But I still think we can safely say we're still so much at the rudimentary level of artificial intelligence that the idea that we may have happened upon something like a general intelligence and are not aware of it is highly unlikely.