| Sentences that embed even simple numerical things such as “What was the 3rd letter of the 46th word in this conversation?” Would take a human many seconds at minimum, but could be answered instantly by an AI. A more interesting question may be to constrain the test to something akin to postal correspondence, where there is a significant delay between messages. I think it could still be solved, though. Arbitrarily complicated numerical tasks can be conceived. For instance, the AI sends correspondence: “I have demonstrated proof of my identity by rewriting the children’s story ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ such that it still rhymes and retains the original plot, but every sentence has an md5 digest that ends with the byte 0x42” Composing such a text would take much, much longer for a human, whereas an AI could just brute force through all the possibilities until it finds one that works. |