Computer pioneer Alan Turing’s remarks in 1950 on the question, “Can machines think?” were misquoted, misinterpreted and morphed into the so-called “Turing Test”. The modern version says if you can’t tell the difference between communicating with a machine and a human, the machine is intelligent. What Turing actually said was that by the year 2000 people would be using words like “thinking” and “intelligent” to describe computers, because interacting with them would be so similar to interacting with people. Computer scientists do not sit down and say alrighty, let’s put this new software to the Turing Test - by Grabthar’s Hammer, it passed! We’ve achieved Artificial Intelligence!
My dude, our billionaire overlords are pushing AI to save them money. They won’t be willing to pay for something like UBI. They spent over a fuckton of money in this last election to hand the presidency to someone who only cares about billionaires and their profits.
You are both right. But the parent is exhibiting too much techno-optimism when it should be focusing on capitalism-pesimism instead.