Turing tester

[psocoptera]

We already knew that Junie doesn't quite get the difference yet between the videophone (Skype) and the ordinary phone (if asked to say goodbye to someone over the phone, she'll wave). In the course of working on family movies, though, it became apparent that she also doesn't yet understand the difference between the videophone and pre-recorded movies. I think she was a little perplexed as to why Gam wasn't responding to her despite her best overtures. [1] She is more person-like every day [2] but it would seem I can't yet report that I've grown an intelligence that can administer a Turing Test...

[1] She was definitely curious/interested by seeing herself in the videos; impossible to tell what she made of that.
[2] Major recent development: you can ask her questions that don't always have the same answer (like "what book do you want to read?", as opposed to "what does the cow say?", which is more like catechism than conversation) and sometimes she can answer them!

Comments

[irilyth]

Another sign that she's still mostly catechismal, though, is that if I ask her what color something is, she invariably says "red!" and if I then say "no, not red -- what color is this?" she invariably says "blue!" :^) But she gets the idea that things are colors, and she understands that there are wrong and right answers to "what color is this?", so I predict a breakthrough before too much longer.

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

more proof that humans are not actually intelligent life forms....

cute, though :)

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

It must be the future, because you're raising a child who is confused by non-video telephony!

[bhadrika.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of when LauraC at camp showed her nearly-two-year-old a video of Daddy on the video camera (at his request/insistence -- he was worried she'd forget him in the month apart). Audrey promptly FREAKED OUT and kept grabbing at the video recorder to try to get Daddy out of that little box. Laura called home: "Well, Roy, the good news is that she remembers you..."

Coming soon for Junie: when questions have actual answers, but with idiosyncratic phrasing, like how Wolf would preface every opinion with "something involving..." "What do you want for dinner?" "Something involving pasta..." "What would you like to play next?" "Something involving legos..."