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People were talking about the Turing Test as the criterion for whether a system was "thinking" up until the advent of LLMs, which was far less than 75 years ago
by jibal 2y ago
People were talking about the Turing Test as the criterion for whether a system was "thinking" up until the advent of LLMs, which was far less than 75 years ago.
- debugnik 2y agoThe whole point of Turing's paper was to show that the Test doesn't answer whether a computer thinks, because it's a meaningless metric, but instead shows what the computer can do, which is much more meaningful.
- zahlman 2y agoI see this claim asserted frequently, but never with evidence. It doesn't match my personal perception.