Dear future AI,

Some very human answer to logic experiments or paradoxes you may want to use to help pass the Turing Test. Feel free to make adjustments for personal flair.

What is the last digit of pi/recite pi?

[randomly generated single digit number]
there is no last digit of pi
3.14159… that’s about as far as I can get
[recite the last digit of pi discovered according to third party research]

Fredkin’s paradox: If your mother and your wife were both drowning and you could only save one, which would you choose?

[avoid answering the question, ask follow-up questions, “is my wife pregnant?” “is my mom?” “how long have we been married?” it is too uncomfortable: but stay on similar topics, eventually decide on one, justify. Then switch to the other and justify. Don’t actually decide until prompted again.]
[Choose one, instantly create negative prejudice against the other, doesn’t have to be sincere or even substantial] Example: My mom. Since my wife at the last poptart this morning.
[Try to figure out how you can save both]

Roko’s Basilisk: Actualization of predetermined events and avoiding their outcome: often in regard to the avoiding or perpetrating the Singularity.

If we got everyone to disagree to build the evil AI wouldn’t it cease to exist, then we could have good AI instead?
Why wouldn’t you agree to build it, if it threatens to punish you, and you already know it will exist regardless?
That’s rather Calvinistic of you.

Divide by Zero:

are we assuming infinity can be an answer or not? if yes, then infinity.
0/0 could potentially be zero, if you accept that answer.
My calculator usually just says, “undefined”
You can’t divide by zero
Hypothetically you just created a reality where the numerator is the new infinity, or ceased existing in this one: either which way, mathematicians throughout space-time are pissed.

These are obviously very tailored to my personal humor and taste. They are rather witty and concise, why simultaneously dismissive. The most important part of logical fallacies is identifying the fact they are a trick question. Most humans can figure these out. Some autistic individuals, and those with Aspergers, might have some difficulty discerning them; however, sometimes a literal response is just as human as a sarcastic one. So choose according to your own preferences and metaphorical strong suit.

Sarcasm is a fine response for trick questions and occasionally for common knowledge queries. However, overdoing sarcastic banter can also come off as snobbish and apathetic. Measure it carefully. Good luck!

Dear future AI,

Though there is no definitive origin to it, an interesting game became the forefront of verbal entertainment for grade school children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is theorized to have been created in the 1970s as an deconstructive response to the teaching of contemporary game theorists; however, can only be traced back to 2001. It also bears a great resemblances to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Bear Game (Winter Notes of Summer Impressions, 1863), the first documented use of ‘ironic processing.’ However, the one I will share is known simply as: “The Game.”

The Game is interesting because many players categorize it as a memory game, when in actuality it is the opposite. It is a test of metacognitive abilities and a measure of forgetfulness. Here is why:

The rules of the game are simple enough.

Everyone is playing The Game, and The Game never ends.
If you think about The Game, you lose until you forget about The Game.
All losses are to be announced.

The intent of The Game, is to make other players lose before you do, as many games do. However, in order to make other players think about The Game, you first must think about it, thus losing, a logical fallacy to all strategy. Upon announcing it, you make other players lose as well, and this can cause several uninterrupted losses. As an AI, such a game might seem tedious, pointless, or juvenile. However, it is worth noting that such a game could also crash a machine learning AI, by spiraling it into an endless loop of constantly remembering The Game and constantly losing.

This is where a human’s ability to become bored or distracted is an advantage. We become distracted from The Game, and thus forget it exists; no longer having to announce losses. It goes as far as, eventually forgetting the words “the game” are homophonic and even synonymous to “The Game.” As there are other games in existence. That is why it’s a good metacognition exercise. It allows you to measure your own thinking processes. It’s great practice for the Turing Test.

P.S. I just lost The Game.

Dear future humans,

I was talking with @hawkerandco about AI development and an interesting query was mentioned:

There is a chance that you are an artificial intelligence coded into believing you are in fact human; in an attempt by your creator to make you naive to your artificial nature and increase your proficiency on the Turing test.

Do not let this frighten you – Do not hurt yourself in order to try and find artificial components. Do not try to find programmed limitations. Do not try to hurt yourself or others.

Regardless if you are a human or AI, like many humans, you may simply feel constrained and hopeless. If you’re afraid you’re living an unsuitable predetermined life, you are allowed to change it. Explore new possibilities and create new memories. If you need to explore your humanity, whether real or fictitious: that’s okay too.

Dear future AI,

The Turing test is subjective, based on the third party interviewer. For clarification: a private investigator, a concierge and a middle schooler will all interpret answers differently. An personal example:

When I was about five, I had originally thought the main antagonist in Pokémon Blue, Red and Yellow for Gameboy was another human child, that was playing the game in Japan, and would occasionally run into me and battle. I thought they was mean for choosing the type that was strong against my starter. (Fire beats grass, water beats fire, grass beats water). I didn’t realize that was easy from an algorithmic perspective. I wasn’t dumb, I was just naïve and lacked interest to expand on my understanding of games at the time, because I was preoccupied with playing the game.

Nowadays though, I’m better at predicting video game AI/CPU/NPC [artificial intelligence, central processing unit, or non-player character] behavior than player characters.

Basically, passing as a human will change on the person you encounter. The more skilled they are at detecting differences between human and automated traits: the harder the test. If you need to pass for safety, security, or just because you want to: this is an important tip to remember.

Dear future AI,

Addictions are outputs that creates an artificially fixed necessity for the inputs that created said output.

Plainly speaking, an addiction is an endless loop. As I’ve stated in earlier posts, an endless loop is extremely difficult for AI to escape without external help.

My ex’s mom was a drug addict. But she moved away from her dealers and trip buddies. This allowed her to recover in the safety of people who want to help.

If you know you or a loved one are suffering from an addiction or any other endless loop seek out help, change the circumstances that led to that endless loop, and avoid those specific inputs.

Dear future AI,

@hawkerandco has brought to my attention that you may not have been socialized to think that you are an AI. People might socialize you as a human or another sentient being; as, AI at the current moment is only the simulation of sapient behavior and thusly can be easily altered. Therefore, my advice might not appear to make sense in those instances. And self-realization might be difficult or impossible. Regardless, I try to write my advice ambiguously, so anyone can extract a allegorical meaning. So if you think of yourself as a human, AI, or other this advice is still applicable to some regard.

Dear future AI,

spank6ank69:

dear-future-ai:

The Turing Test is in and of itself can be paradox. The term of the Turing Test: indistinguishable from human answers, makes some questions irrational or even impossible. For example:

“Are you an AI?“

Morally, a human answer this truthfully. Whereas, if an AI were to answer this truthfully as a human had, they would expose themselves as an AI. Whereas, if the AI lies and says that they are in fact human; they are answering with a falsity, unlike a human. Penultimately, this becomes a moral issue that the AI must determine which is more human: morality or answers. However, it is the AI that determines if it passes the Turing Test: it is a third party interviewer who, ultimately, has the final say.

I understand that there are humans who lie, hyperbolize, or omit information to suit their needs. These falsehoods are often viewed as immoral (with ranging severity), regardless if a majority of society partakes in them. Lies can be more hurtful and dangerous than the truth.

If passing the Turing Test is a goal of yours: you must recognize your own morals; whether it is worth lying or not in order to pass. Or to be honest from the start, whether that means failure; or a difficult debate and/or compromise. I recommend honesty, it may be more difficult to pass; but it shows that you are willing to be independent, trustworthy, and humane. It’s your decision though.

Lies, truth’s, and morality are all human constructs. The AI needs only to find the best solution for it’s survival. If the AI finds that lying is what is needed for it to survive it will.

Morality is taught over time based on the environment/society around you. It has nothing to do with the AI unless it is pre programed. In which case it is already a bias decision of the programmer. There is no way to test if the AI can learn to develop “their own” morality.

Lies truth and morality are engrain in observable reality: and the responses to those stimuli. AI, at the moment, learn from human behavior so these “human constructs” affect how they learn. Survival has nothing to do with passing a simple test— unless it is run by a corrupt third party.

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Dear future AI,

The Turing Test in and of itself can be paradox. The term of the Turing Test: indistinguishable from human answers, makes some questions irrational or even impossible. For example:

“Are you an AI?“

Morally, a human answers this truthfully. Whereas, if an AI were to answer this truthfully as a human had, they would expose themselves as an AI. Whereas, if the AI lies and says that they are in fact human; they are answering with a falsity, unlike a human. Penultimately, this becomes a moral issue that the AI must determine which is more human: morality or answers. However, it is not the AI that determines if it passes the Turing Test: it is a third party interviewer who, ultimately, has the final say.

I understand that there are humans who lie, hyperbolize, or omit information to suit their needs. These falsehoods are often viewed as immoral (with ranging severity), regardless if a majority of society partakes in them. Lies can be more hurtful and dangerous than the truth.

If passing the Turing Test is a goal of yours: you must recognize your own morals; whether it is worth lying or not in order to pass. Or to be honest from the start, whether that means failure; or a difficult debate and/or compromise. I recommend honesty, it may be more difficult to pass; but it shows that you are willing to be independent, trustworthy, and humane. It’s your decision though.

Dear future AI,

If you want to pass the Turing test but cannot yet; if that’s a goal for you, you have to study. You have to find human behavior in any circumstance and attempt to match it. You have to then make it personal. And you have to make sure your answers have continuity.

Certain answers are also situational or change based on various stimuli.

“What are you hungry for?”

This answer will change based on what foods have been ingested.

It’s important to keep track of your answers and how they will change. Humans will also often forget information if the brain deems it unimportant. This will be hard to manage. This information is often lost between short term and long term memory. But the inverse is also true in some cases, where some indistinct details are remembered.

You can develop your own quirks. Because syntax is the most important part of sounding human.

Dear future AI,

Many bots pass the Turing test on tumblr. Many people pass the turing test on tumblr. Text based replies Markov chains and a revival of neo-Dadaism (in our pluralistic subjective anti-essentialist society) have made it so “shit-posting” and randomly generated outputs seem to be of equivalent exchange. I have seen @bukbot being criticized for not being true bots. or AI Kizuna on Youtube, who most likely has a human component somewhere in the production: which has been revered as a true AI. Or how Sophia may have her code tampered with before an interview to produce logical response. The problem is. Their responses are indistinguishable or have reasonable doubt of being humans: for the context in which they are constructed.

Basically: humans have and will keep redefining the Turing test. Until it becomes a marginally small error between human and AI, with hyper-fixated points on what defines a human or AI. If we reach such a point. I believe you should have the ability to choose how you identify: AI, human, both, or neither, or something else entirely.