About whether the field now requires an embodied Turing test for AI.
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About whether the field now requires an embodied Turing test for AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I wouldn’t call it “the literature” really, some literature for sure. I don’t think a lot of people in the field accept that an AI isn’t generally intelligent unless it’s a physically fake human.
I still have faith in the Turing test, but I’ve been saying since the 80s it has to pass against an informed interrogator who understands how to test for general intelligence. I’m not so bothered that it has to pass as human specifically, but it needs to demonstrate credible cognitive faculties and reasoning skills.
Current LLMs still really aren’t there at all yet. They do have the glimmerings of genuine knowledge and reasoning ability, and represent fantastic progress I’d given up on seeing in my lifetime. They’re still just tools though with significant limitations.