Mastodawn

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.

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Joe DiMaggio 3d ago

@quinn The Turing Test is not so much a measure of how good your AI is as it is a measure of how easy it is to fool people.

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dogzilla

@joed @quinn I think the Turing test is more subtle than that. If your only means of communication is remote - like it is between you and me right now - then is the question of whether the entity on the other end a human or computer a distinction without a difference? Turing was testing the edges of computing theory (not computers but computing).