> Turing Test is not casually passing as human in casual interaction. It is stumping a human dedicated to rooting out that it is a machine who is aware that one

> Turing Test is not casually passing as human in casual interaction. It is stumping a human dedicated to rooting out that it is a machine who is aware that one of the participants is a machine. It's a good point to bring up that what counts as "passing as human" is ambiguous, because people are using different definitions. I'm reminded of how trans people say that passing is a spectrum, and not a binary. There's a difference between passing in the distance, passing from 20 meters away, passing when interacting with service workers (like cashiers, receptionists, etc.) or in other quick interactions, and passing with your friends, family, and coworkers. Maybe someone trans passes in quick interactions, but not in an extended face-to-face conversation with a stranger. I've also heard that people relatively ignorant of trans people are less likely to perceive them as their birth sex compared to people who are liberal or who aren't but spend a lot of time reading about them anyway (e.g. certain feminists and conservatives). Those people are likely to see someone wear a dress and take the mental shortcut of categorizing them as a woman, not paying attention to details that others would have, unless it's extremely obvious that they don't pass. The same can be applied to AI. A language model might pass as a human to someone who doesn't know about AI; or to someone who knows about AI, but isn't expecting it in a certain context; but still not manage to stump the person who suspects and tries to figure out who's an AI and who's a human.