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If the question was about AGI or sentience or whatever else then we could debate it endlessly, but there is no doubt that the Turing Test was solved by computer
by paxys 3y ago
If the question was about AGI or sentience or whatever else then we could debate it endlessly, but there is no doubt that the Turing Test was solved by computers well before ChatGPT was even a thing. Although that says more about the shortcomings of the test itself rather than the capabilities of AI.
- marcusverus 3y agoYou can say the test was imperfectly designed, but pointless? No. The point of the test was to provide an objective measuring stick by which we might define the moment of arrival of machine thinking. As Turing observed, a question like “Can machines think” is painfully subjective and thus is a poor measuring stick. Hence the need for the test.
- bnralt 3y agoI remember pretty rudimentary Chatbots from decades ago that were able to fool someone unfamiliar with them for at least a few minutes. I've even known people who did gag answering messages that were able to fool people into thinking they were talking to a real person - not for long, mind you, but for a surprising amount of time. It's always seemed a pretty bad basis for deciding intelligence.