our best conception of a test for smarts in the sense we want is the Turing test
The Turing test doesn’t look for intelligence. It looks for ‘personhood’ - and it’s not even a definitive test, merely an application of the point that something that can fool us into thinking its a person is due the same regard we give people.
The Turing test doesn’t look for intelligence. It looks for ‘personhood’ - and it’s not even a definitive test, merely an application of the point that something that can fool us into thinking its a person is due the same regard we give people.