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Intro We (collectively, as humanity) have given quite a lot of thought to recognizing artificial conscious beings. We may not have a consensus, but at least we have a debate. Now, let's imagine that a company like those that own ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc announced that it developed strong AI. To be more precise, let's say that the claim is "self conscious and self aware artificial being". Judging by the latest trends, such technology would probably start as closed beta, then would be paid. Now, such a model allows for a simple yet effective fraud - you put humans on the other side of the cable. It would require work on knowledge sharing (if you say X on one machine, another machine should, at some point, be aware of X too), but that is a matter of good automation and engineering. The strategy of slowly growing the userbase at a controlled pace would be familiar to the public, yet very helpful to the scam. Question What is the "reverse Turing test"?

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The "reverse Turing test" is a test where a human evaluator tries to distinguish between a human and an AI. It can be used to detect if a supposed strong AI is actually a fraud with humans operating behind the scenes.

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The "reverse Turing test" refers to a test where the objective is for a human evaluator to determine whether they are interacting with a human or an AI. In a traditional Turing test, the objective is for an AI to convince the human evaluator that it is a human. However, in a reverse Turing test, the tables are turned and the human evaluator tries to distinguish the AI from a human. This can be used to detect if a supposed strong AI is actually a fraud with humans operating behind the scenes.

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