It can. Elijah's furniture is all incredibly expensive and very sturdy.
"All right."
He sits across from her.
"I'll start at the beginning. When I was young, I became familiar with an
idea introduced to the world by a mathematician who lived in the twentieth
century. He proposed something called the 'Turing Test'. An artificial
intelligence could pass this test if it could emulate a human in
conversation, to the extent that a human could not themselves tell the
difference.
"The proposed test was intended to take place over text, but I wanted to do
more. When I was twenty, I completed an android which passed the test in
person. Testers couldn't distinguish her from a human being, physically or
behaviorally."
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It can. Elijah's furniture is all incredibly expensive and very sturdy.
"All right."
He sits across from her.
"I'll start at the beginning. When I was young, I became familiar with an idea introduced to the world by a mathematician who lived in the twentieth century. He proposed something called the 'Turing Test'. An artificial intelligence could pass this test if it could emulate a human in conversation, to the extent that a human could not themselves tell the difference.
"The proposed test was intended to take place over text, but I wanted to do more. When I was twenty, I completed an android which passed the test in person. Testers couldn't distinguish her from a human being, physically or behaviorally."