About whether AI could actually pass the Turing test after AlphaGo's wins.
Has this happened?
Yes 85 (60%)Not sure 29 (20%)No 28 (20%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI could actually pass the Turing test after AlphaGo's wins.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Turing test isn't just a natural language problem. It is far more complex and requires context awareness and emotional intelligence far beyond where we are currently. Language recognition has been at the forefront of research for at least 30 years and it has improved significantly. However, the turing test aspect has only minimally improved.
Edit: iopq, pretending to be a dumb human (or one with a language barrier) is cheating for a headline. A real Turing test would require a computer imitate a human for longer than 5 minutes (although currently that is plenty of time) and without any caveats or limitations on the computer's skill.