Turing Test
What happens
- A scientist with a clipboard watches a dog bark at another dog hidden behind a wall.
- In the next panel the hidden dog has been replaced by a radio that barks back, and the dog barks just the same.
- The scientist congratulates the inventor on a machine as intelligent and conscious as dogs; the inventor says that with the grant money, humans are not far behind. The checklist on the clipboard reads: barks, doesn't stop when yelled at, more barking.
Why it lands
Turing proposed his imitation game as a replacement for the vague question "can machines think?". The strip keeps the procedure and swaps the audience, and the procedure still passes. It reads differently now that chatbots are routinely described as passing one test or another.
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