About whether LLMs passing the Turing test means we have reached real AI.
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About whether LLMs passing the Turing test means we have reached real AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The Turing test is meant to see if computers can functionally replicate human thought (just focussing on textual conversations aspect for simplicity).
The implications of passing the Turing Test are profound. Tricking a user with a 5 minute conversation isn't the same. The examiner is allowed to be an expert questionner.
For one thing, software engineering would quickly be taken over as a client can just chat with an AI to get the code. That is far from happening, even with all the recent LLM advances.
Similarly for literature, science etc. Currently, you can detect a difference between a competent human & machine in all these fields just by text chat. Another way of saying this is that the Turing Test is AI-complete and is a test for AGI.