This leads me to a thought based on observation I mull over time to time. The thought is that a significant portion of alleged human interactions across the internet are actually machines and scripts. The event just verifies that people can indeed be fooled by well arranged scripts and algorithms. Taking that point and appending it to the fact that we know some intelligent people have wielded quite large bot farms for seemingly frivolous things; it's probably not too much of a stretch to say they've used them for manipulating people via apparent social interaction on the internet.
This is an interesting point: is the Turing test inherently flawed for the fact that the judges are actively looking for "tells" that the actor is synthetic? Wouldn't a more reliable test involve participants that had no idea of the nature or point of the interaction? Maybe bots are way past the Turing test standard already. Maybe the test is just kind of misguided/insufficient.
Wait til the first AI puts on the stupid act to get what it wants. But, but...how do you know that's not already happening?
Worth considering. Wouldn't the best test be one where the judges were completely unaware of the initial conditions? Like the bot was a Live chat representative for Amazon or an Omegle user.
I wonder the extent to which it happens now. However, I have little doubt that it won't only increase over time. I am sure that Google has visions of replacing call centers with their technology. Perhaps a certain percentage of people on the planet have no chance of meaningfully partaking in the global economy, as they will never possess a skill that hasn't been subsumed by expanding capabilities of technology.
that's been a realization for a while. This insistence that their must be a hierarchy and competition is incompatible with positive applications of technological advances at this point. Then couple that with the sheer mass of people who are technologically ignorant; humans are being left behind. I think there will be some sort of human psychological tipping point where we make a decision on the spectrum of willful cooperation for the sake of humanity to allow further technological development or forced operation at the hands of a few for self serving goals through technological development. Something like that.