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INTELLIGENCE
More Human, Less Artificial
“Can machines think?”
That’s how Alan Turing began his celebrated paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” published in 1950.1 Ever since, there has been much argument about what came to be known as the “Turing Test”—turning on the question of whether a computer could fool us into believing it was human. Though Turing himself never claimed that machines could actually think, that hasn’t stopped fantasists and casual observers from imagining—usually with horror—machines endowed with human consciousness.
That is not us.
The radically human turn in AI that we are seeing is not about recreating consciousness. It’s about solving problems by leveraging the most powerful cognitive characteristics ...
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