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I remember when the goal posts were set at the "Turing test."

That's certainly not coming back.



The goal posts were never set at the "Turing test"

It's not a real thing. You do not remember the goal posts ever being there.

Turing put forth a thought experiment in the early days of some discussions about "artificial" thinking machines on a very philisophical level.

Add to that, nobody who claims to have "passed" the turing test has ever done an actual example of that thought experiment, which is about taking two respondents and finding out which is human. It is NOT talking to a single respondent and deciding whether they are an LLM or not.

It also has never been considered a valid "test" of "intelligence" as it was obvious from the very very beginning that tricking a person wasn't really meaningful, as most people can be tricked by even simple systems.

ELIZA was the end of any thought around "The turing test", as it was able to "trick" tons of people and show how useless the turing thought experience was. Anyone who claims ELIZA is intelligent would be very silly.


If you know the tricks wont you be able to figure out if some chat is done by a LLM?




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