About whether the Turing test is a good measure of human-level AI.
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About whether the Turing test is a good measure of human-level AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
"Maybe it is a human who is typing gibberish for X reason" is not a good objection to the idea of a turing test.
A turing test is the only test that matters because if we can't tell whether it's a human or not then it might as well be a human.
Anyway, the idea that we have built human-level intelligence is silly. We have algorithms that can beat humans at tasks humans consider hard. That's quite an achievement but it's not what Vinge was talking about.