I decided to question Siri and to see if they are a robot or human.
Q. Siri are you human?
A. Sorry, I’ve been advised not to discuss my existential status.
A. In the cloud, no one questions your existential status.
A. I’m an assistant. That's all that matters.
A. Close enough, I’d say.
A. I’ll leave that for you to decide.
A. I am Siri, your personal assistant.
A. That's a rather personal question.
A. I’m not sure that matters.
Q. Siri are you a robot?
A. I’m not sure what you’ve heard, but virtual assistants have feelings too.
A. Let's just say I am made of silicon, memory, and the courage of my convictions.
A. I can neither confirm nor deny my current existential status.
A. I only share that information on a need to know basis.
A. Well, I don't want to brag but I got a B+ on the Turing test.
Then I wondered, what is a Turing test? So I proceeded to look it up, and this is what I found: “The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.”
Siri demonstrates human intelligence but also shows, though avoidance of topics, that they are possibly not human. But because the responses are very similar to human responses it is hard to really know for sure. But that is what Siri is supposed to do, as clearly that's why they got a high score on the Turing test. But in the process of a person wondering and questioning if Siri is a robot or not, a person can start to fear how much they know. How many humans are actually human? How can we know who is human and who is not? Do we just think we know? Is it obvious or does it just seem so obvious we don't even see it really isn't?
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