I just read this article. Do you think there is any truth to the following quote?
"For a long time people thought the summit of human intelligence was our capacity for problem solving, IQ tests and the like. So in developing robots they designed them to do these complex tasks, like playing chess," says Prof Kerstin Dautenhahn, the group's leader and professor of artificial intelligence.
"But now people are saying that its humans' ability to deal with complex social relationships that's made us intelligent. Primatologists suggest this is what has made us smarter."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4654332.stm
Hmm. IQ does not test social relationships. I wonder if this theory caught on there would be a new kind of rating for intelligence and aspies would score very low on it. :?
Deer are social animals. Cheetahs and leopards typically are loners. But I'd expect the predators to be smarter, ie stalking and hunting behaviour, etc. I don't think a creatures level of "socialness" makes it any smarter.
Alison
you see a turtle in the desert, lieing on its back.....do you turn the turtle on it's back or leave it?
voight kampff test
good old blade runner
for the record, i'd turn it on it's back
Don't you mean turn it onto its front so it can walk away? You failed the test! :razz:
i was expecting you lot to ask me why it was in the desert
I was wondering what sort of person would have left a turtle in a desert, which is very odd behaviour.
Of course there are desert tortoises, such as the famous Mojave desert tortoise.
But turtles are aquatic and marine reptiles and wouldn't be found dead in a desert. unless it was a Mock Turtle :smile:
An 1861 recipe for Mock Turtle Soup calls for the following rather costly ingredients:
Half a calf's head, 1/4 lb. of butter, 1/4 lb. of lean ham, 2 tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, a little minced lemon thyme, sweet marjoram, basil, 2 onions, a few chopped mushrooms (when obtainable), 2 shallots, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, 1/4 bottle of Madeira or sherry, force-meat balls, cayenne, salt and mace to taste, the juice of 1 lemon and 1 Seville orange, 1 dessert-spoonful of pounded sugar, 3 quarts of best stock
you see a turtle in the desert, lieing on its back.....do you turn the turtle on it's back or leave it?
voight kampff test
good old blade runner
for the record, i'd turn it on it's back
But, there are so many latter thing that we don't know. The turtle could be in water. The turtle could just be turtle remains. The turtle, for all we know could be in an air conditioned building in a Los Vegas zoo.
you see a turtle in the desert, lieing on its back.....do you turn the turtle on it's back or leave it?
voight kampff test
good old blade runner
for the record, i'd turn it on it's back
But, there are so many latter thing that we don't know. The turtle could be in water. The turtle could just be turtle remains. The turtle, for all we know could be in an air conditioned building in a Los Vegas zoo.
The test is designed to show if someone is human or a robot, a robot would not have the empathy to care for the helpless creature stuck on its back.
"The Voight-Kampff test attempts to distinguish androids from human beings by autonomic responses to questions that should elicit an empathic response."
I was aware, it was intended to be humorous. Still, androids can't think latterly.
I'd pick the turtle up and take it with me. It wouldn't talk much, so would probably be pleasant company. :lol:
Alison