Artificial humanity

It’s possible that humanity isn’t defined by intelligence at all, but by stupidity, e.g. our capacity for missing the point entirely.

It turns out that it’s relatively easy to teach a machine to seem intelligent. What’s hard is making it convincingly dumb, absurd, funny, ironic or self-defeating.

Turing was so impressed with his own intelligence that he missed the obvious. Thus proving my point.

Turing wanted to know if a machine could think like a human. Turns out the more interesting question is whether a human can notice when they’re thinking like a machine.