What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Brian Christian
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When reading the book "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss, the author talks about the passage by way of which she decided to write about her relationship with her husband. The passage reads: “What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.” She goes on to say that she keeps falling into the same trap of believing that her husband really is human. This keeps surprising her because she always ends up disappointed. She knows that he is not human but yet she still thinks that he is. If you fall into this trap then you will never know what true love is.

Source: The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

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