Food for thought: Alan Turing was born in 1912, and Grindr launched in 2009. So there’s an outside chance that Turing could have lived to see (or helped found) Grindr, if the world had been gentler to him.
Alan Turing if he existed today
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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Okay, but if Alan Turing were alive today, he would be fascinated with the mathematics of the transformer architecture that modern LLMs use. Societal implications aside, the way machine learning has evolved is fascinating. I’d bet even something "intro to machine learning"y like a small, deep neural network (DNN) with backpropagation would be incredible to him. The Turing test sees a lot of emphasis among people who don’t know much about how machine learning actually works (or the rare philosopher who does), but Turing was a mathematician who would’ve loved to see how statistical processes govern modern machine learning instead of a preprogrammed decision tree. (Also, you’d have to be smoking crack and know zero about the field of AI or its history if you think Turing wouldn’t consider something like ChatGPT “AI”.)