Heard of the Turing’s test??..
In 1950s Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician invented this test. In fact it was Turing’s works on computers that forms the basis of modern computing.
The test in simple terms determines whether the screen you are communicating with opposite to you is a human or a computer!…..He recommended that if a computer can fool a human even 33% then the computer is said to have passed the test!!….
So for the last fifty years no computer had passed this test!…. This was achieved by a Russian bot in 2014!…. Just imagine that it took so many years for man to make a computer which can pass of like human.
In the coming years this will be a reality….We will have computers or robots who will act or behave like human…. Unfortunately we have had humans who behave like robots without emotion or humanity for ages……
Now coming to my story…..
So there used to be this patient who had vague complaints like nose block which was just occasional…..Since he was persistent I advised him to go for the nasal surgery if he is symptomatic….. This was always his intention he told because he had taken insurance two years back and now wanted to claim it!…So after explaining all the procedure involved I asked him if he had any questions??…
With a straight face he asked how the insurance money would be credited…
By cash or by cheque??….
I was surprised at this question but nevertheless told him that it would be credited to the hospital directly….
The patient was then shocked! What he told later was the real shocker though!
He had lots of expenses coming up and his understanding was that he could go for this surgery and he would be paid the insurance money for his ‘sacrifice!!’ of doing the surgery!!!…..
I had a tough time explaining to him that it was not like selling you kidney (that’s crude but no other way to say it!!). He couldn’t just get a surgery done and claim the money for personal use!…
He apparently had plans of going for a tonsil surgery the next year with the same intention!….
Though I was surprised at his ignorance I was also amazed that he was willing to cut himself up for no apparent reason just to make ends meet for his family…..
And no I did not operate on him..I did tell him to work harder and get other jobs to make the income more and I did tell him to not try to sell his body like this…
Don’t know what happened later since I shifted my city but have never forgotten his innocent face when he earnestly asked when he would get paid….
So my pearl of wisdom for the day is that let’s not pay much attention to make robots behave like humans which will anyway happen in the near future but let’s try to make humans behave like humans……
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