The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1949,[2] is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human. In the test, a human evaluator judges a text transcript of a natural-language conversation between a human and a machine. The evaluator tries to identify the machine, and the machine passes if the evaluator cannot reliably tell them apart.
This isn't as hard a test as the one you're describing. There's research showing LLMs pass very similar tests:
randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational partner they thought was human. When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant. LLaMa-3.1, with the same prompt, was judged to be the human 56% of the time -- not significantly more or less often than the humans they were being compared to -- while baseline models (ELIZA and GPT-4o) achieved win rates significantly below chance (23% and 21% respectively). The results constitute the first empirical evidence that any artificial system passes a standard three-party Turing test.
That's not quite the same thing as LLMs being so good at imitating humans that a trained expert has no possible edge for telling the difference, but it is a major milestone, and I think it's technically accurate to say "AI has passed the Turing Test" at this point.
There are also thoretically infinite Turing tests. Some of them don't involve talking at all.
Alan designed a variety of tests to evaluate different and changing measures of intelligence.
We should assume he would have kept making new tests that address the advancements in technology and that the tests would usually be on a case by case basis depending on how the tech was implemented and what would be the best methods for testing it.
The goal of the turing test is for a human to differentiate between human and AI. You can't be "too incompetent at being human", you can be stupid, but that doesn't make you less human.
Moving both human and AI into AI category = the categorization is broken, AI is indistinguishable from a human.
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finitebanjo@piefed.world · 21 pts · 292d
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 291d
From wikipedia:
This isn't as hard a test as the one you're describing. There's research showing LLMs pass very similar tests:
That's not quite the same thing as LLMs being so good at imitating humans that a trained expert has no possible edge for telling the difference, but it is a major milestone, and I think it's technically accurate to say "AI has passed the Turing Test" at this point.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d
There are also thoretically infinite Turing tests. Some of them don't involve talking at all.
Alan designed a variety of tests to evaluate different and changing measures of intelligence.
We should assume he would have kept making new tests that address the advancements in technology and that the tests would usually be on a case by case basis depending on how the tech was implemented and what would be the best methods for testing it.
Mika@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 292d
Humans not passing mean machine won the test.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 2 pts · 292d
Mika@piefed.ca · -1 pts · 292d
The goal of the turing test is for a human to differentiate between human and AI. You can't be "too incompetent at being human", you can be stupid, but that doesn't make you less human.
Moving both human and AI into AI category = the categorization is broken, AI is indistinguishable from a human.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 1 pts · 291d
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 292d
To be fair some humans are utter idiots…
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 292d
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deadlyduplicate@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 291d
Searle is really who we should be asking