OneBird28

But knowing that I'm going to get straight home once I'm out of this weather, it's suddenly nothing. Having the pants of my legs and the scarf around my face frozen so stiff they feel like they cut my skin if I move, it's nothing. Knowing that the rain has reached my underwear and I can't tell cooled sweat from warmed rainwater anymore, that's nothing. My ears being so windburnt that it's giving me the kind of a headache that makes me want to throw up, that's nothing.

It's nothing because I know I'm going to get home, peel the wet clothes off myself like the skin of a stubborn orange, take a shower that's normal temperature but feels too hot at first, painfully hot, until my skin gets used to the sensation of warmth again. And then drying off and getting to a fresh, clean, dry bed. I won't care if it's 3 pm, if my clothes have clumps of snow in them once I get home, I'm going straight to bed. And it's going to be so fucking cozy.

Whereas the reality is far more like

OK, so lately I've been thinking about generative ai and chat bots, how they wouldn't pass for sapient even if they pass the Turing test. Then I started thinking about all my favorite ai fanfics such as I See You Sun Drop(FNaF security Breach), Complex inquiries(sonic the hedgehog), and Like Clockwork(FNaF security breach). And how the reason that I love them so much is that the robots in them act undeniably robotic, but are also undeniably people too. Like if you put any of these robots through the Turing test they would all fail miserably, except maybe the abandoned Like Clockwork animatronics, if you give them a pencil and paper (But they would get an F- on a verbal exam).

So I started thinking, what if the way to test for sapience in ai is not to have them succeeded in the Turing test, but instead to fail at it. Think about, chat bots today could probably pass the Turing test, but I would hesitant to call any of them sapient, but if you strip away all the pretending to be human, you can get straight into how they think and act.

The thing about the animatronics in Like Clockwork, the ones that were old and forgotten on the abandoned side of the park, Is that because of their incredibly limited voice lines, and their much more limited programming, they came up with much more novel ways to communicate and support eachother. This makes me feel like that they would have an easier time advocating for their sapience then their much more advanced counterparts because no one can say 'oh they're just mimicking humans' because humans don't do weird mashed up voice line charades. Neither can people say 'oh this was hardcoded in' because why would anyone code that in when there are several much simpler methods to get them to communicate an issue?

This is also how I feel about the robots in I See You Sundrop, being similarly limited animatronics, though they have a better handle on speech. Simply put, the more limited the sapient ai is, the more creative they have to get to overcome it. The more creative they are the harder it is to say it was simply training data, because there would be no training data for their incredibly unique situation.