About whether the Turing test is a good criterion for machine understanding.
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About whether the Turing test is a good criterion for machine understanding.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Whether, and to what extent, a given Turing test session probes understanding depends on what the interrogator chooses to ask. The training of ChatGPT does not contain any explicit bias towards demonstrating an understanding of anything, and it seems that a reasonably determined and detached interrogator should have little difficulty in identifying it on this basis.