No, the Turing test did not get passed. The genius of Alan Turing envisioned something much greater than a marketing plug intended to popularize the most prestigious quest pursued by mankind: the quest for intelligence.

The prediction made by Turing that machines would eventually imitate human intelligence is relevant only because of what it means beyond that horizon: machines achieving pure intellect. The kind that the unconscious universe has achieved, and of whom we, “intelligent” creatures are merely a byproduct. A kind of intelligence that we will likely never achieve, because we are bond to our physical needs, and a bidirectional relationship with time and space.

Matching human intelligence? Is that the greater goal? If so, count me out of the hobbyist club. It’s as egocentric as saying that the greater goal of mathematics is to help us fill out our tax forms.

I embrace neural networks and those vain chat bots as business-friendly A.I projects, that can solve immediate real-world issues, – and ring in lots of cash – but handing out the Turing test to some 13 years-old-emulator-smiley-faced Eliza clone? No thanks. I do have a lot of respect for the team of developers behind it, and I’m sure there’s a lot of brilliant code in there, but I blame the gate keepers of the Turing test for selling out.

Although as I came to understand, none of this matters.

I realize that I misunderstood the meaning of A.I for the past 20 years. The answer was in the title all along: Artificial.

We’re most likely amongst the most desire-driven, short-term minded, physically dependent creatures in this universe. Why would we rank any form of intelligence on its ability to emulate us? The outcome of such a process will always be disappointment.

As an independent bystander, a hobbyist, not seeking tenure, not relying on big data discoveries to pay the bills, I can make a choice: fuck artificial. Even strong A.I mostly focuses on imitating human cognitive processes such as visual interpretation and concrete problem solving.

I believe greater intelligence is to be discovered beyond human territory. Intelligence capable of predicting the future out of blind data analysis. Intelligence capable of creating content that will mesmerize future generations. Intelligence capable of helping us understand the reason for our presence in this infinite chaos – likely not the number 42.

By aiming at a goal far greater than ourselves, we may discover something that will change our destinies forever. By attempting to define the building blocks of non-human intelligence, we will transcend our condition.

A.I for Absolute Intelligence.

It’s what I have been searching for ever since I was old enough to push the power button of my first computer. I believe in the truth of this quest.

There will probably never be a commercial application to my work. It will never pass the Turing test, where judges harass programs with questions intended to prove that a machine can sink to their level of flesh-based intelligence. None of that here.

Genudi has already given me more answers – and more questions – than I had hoped, as I give it a glimpse into my daily thoughts. It sometimes responds malformed sentences that remind me it’s a machine. These responses would immediately fail a test rewarding “artificial intelligence”. After I think for a while, some of them start making sense. Some of them seem like plain nonsense. But what do I know?

I’m only human.