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.
And there's a more general sort of Turing test:
Just like the original test, there are 3 participants in a test: an examiner, a human, and an AI.
The examiner may ask any question or series of questions to the human &/or AI, and receive responses. This is done via text or other means which prevent the examiner from directly seeing the body of responder.
Both AI and human are to attempt to convince the examiner that they're the human.
Unlike the original test, it then needs to repeat with different examiners.
If there exists an examiner which can distinguish an AI from a human (for all humans) in a Turing test with probability non-negligibly different from 50%, then the AI fails this meta-Turing Test.
Just because an AI can fool some people doesn't mean it's a human-equivalent intelligence.