Future Tense: Turing's Taxi

Like everyone, the first time the author rode in an Auto cab and the driver recognized him, he was flattered. But when it became obvious that its AIs recognized everyone -- it was a marketing ploy to make driverless cabs inviting and routine -- it wore thin. Admittedly, Auto's algorithms were m...

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Published inCommunications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 8; p. 104
Main Author Clegg, Brian
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Association for Computing Machinery 01.08.2017
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Autonomous vehicles
Face recognition
Logic
Pattern recognition systems
Taxicabs
United States > US
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ISSN0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI10.1145/3107917

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Summary:Like everyone, the first time the author rode in an Auto cab and the driver recognized him, he was flattered. But when it became obvious that its AIs recognized everyone -- it was a marketing ploy to make driverless cabs inviting and routine -- it wore thin. Admittedly, Auto's algorithms were matchless and thoroughly convincing. It was still the only bot that could beat the strong Turing Test, where the software has to be 100% indistinguishable from human, but that didn't make it any more sincere, or acceptable to the trained ear. Using face recognition and looking him up on the Web, then picking out the kind of facts about him that would give him a little glow. It's manipulative. The real-life brain would have had a conscious experience. It would have felt something when it read.
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ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3107917