My fellow journalists, I need you to stop talking about the Turing Test; it was never a good metric. Turing was a computer scientist, not a psychologist. ELIZA passed it, and also was a decent Person-centered therapy bot. Some people actually used it that way, even knowing it was a bot.
A) There are many paths to the top of a mountain, and
B) LLMs and other AIs aren't real girls and boys just because we feel they are.
@quinn
The Turing test was only an idea. It was never a serious metric to measure AI.
Also a computer program that can merely "chat" but isn't 100% following instructions and is only 40% accurate is only a toy.
Eliza is limited because the responses are built in. So were others inc 1990s Internet ALICE. Scraping mostly un-curated internet content, inc copyright material simply makes it more realistic, not more useful. It's still a toy.
Eliza is still in Linux emacs,
@quinn
Turing also thought chess would need AI. It didn't.
He was a clever mathematician and computer technology was still in it's infancy in 1954 when he died (either by accident or suicide, because he'd been experimenting with dangerous chemicals).
Leo Computer (Lyons, 1st commercial) 1951
First full size transistor computer 1955
ForTran 1957
Cobol 1960
1964 1st commercial MOS ICs.
LLMs are not intelligent at all and less useful than late 1980s AI "Expert systems" using curated data.
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