Introducing The AI Mirror Test, Which Very Smart People Keep Failing
ZDNet, February 17th, 2023
AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they're just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software - not sentient.
In behavioral psychology, the mirror test is designed to discover animals' capacity for self-awareness. There are a few variations of the test, but the essence is always the same: do animals recognize themselves in the mirror or think it's another being altogether?
Right now, humanity is being presented with its own mirror test thanks to the expanding capabilities of AI - and a lot of otherwise smart people are failing it.