Least-Human Human
Earlier this year I read "The Most Human Human", a story of a real-life Turing Test AI competition, and the humans who competed. It's entertaining and thought provoking, but that's not my point. It's fun to think about what makes a human "more human", but instead of the "most-human human", what about the "least-human human", or the "bottom-quartile-human human"? In the real world, human-ism is surely a statistical curve, and AI will pass the Turing Test against some individuals far sooner than others. But more important is the Observer-Judge...they too must be facile and adept at what makes a human "human". Already we are each in this role today, against Twitter Bots and voice-assistant systems and photoshopped images and user interfaces which are some combination of AI and human designs. Is there a Turing Test for photographs? Videos? Language translators? Isn't the Turing Test a contin