About whether critics of AI are moving the goalposts on what counts as intelligence.
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About whether critics of AI are moving the goalposts on what counts as intelligence.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Look, the "goal post" for artificial intelligence was set by the same person who helped birth computer science itself: Alan Turing; and anyone who thinks that ChatGPT could pass an actual Turing test--with the tester actively and intently trying to figure out who the computer is--is deluding themselves.
We could thereby argue that, if you want to try to argue that any of these systems are artificially intelligent--and, honestly, maybe they are!--you are the one "moving the goal posts", as it is certainly going to be a lot easier to claim the test is too difficult than to actually pass the test.
Regardless, people like this author who are then trying to figure out what it is that they think actually makes a human different from a machine are not merely coming up with "coping" mechanisms: ChatGPT is obviously not like a human yet, so it should be fair to try to analyze why that is.