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 man was a genius but no modern person in tech would still believe it's a good metric to evaluate machine learning algorithms.
@minentromaxinfo yes, he was a genius in his moment. Amazing man. But imagine if you handed him an iPhone.
@quinn If I ever get my hands on a time machine after sending baby Trump to the moon I would love to get Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Turing and Claude Shannon in a room and give them an iPhone.