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Sounds more like you failed the Turing test rather than your friends chatbot passing it :)

• saurik 4y ago
  The point was that people mis-use the term "Turing test" as "manages to trick people sometimes into thinking its a human". To quote the description from Wikipedia: > Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation was a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel, such as a computer keyboard and screen, so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech. If the evaluator could not reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine would be said to have passed the test. The test results would not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only on how closely its answers resembled those a human would give. ChatGPT would not manage to pass an actual Turing test anymore than Roy's auto-responder; and, while we might get there frighteningly soon, that goalpost stands.
  • mannykannot 4y ago
    Turing was more far-seeing than many of his successors - he set up the first goalposts, and the first moving occurred in the late 1970s or 80s when crude hand-crafted rules engines were dubbed 'AI'. It was so bad that we had to invent a new term, AGI, to recover Turing's vision.