Why It’s Time to Sunset the Turing Test – Communications of the ACM

The Turing Test: Time to Retire

In 1950, Alan Mathison Turing published a paper outlining ways to assess emerging machine intelligences, centered on the notion that if an AI can convincingly imitate a human intellect, it can be regarded as intelligent.

The Turing Test, as it came to be known, has been used to measure the intelligence of various systems, from early medical expert systems to today's large language models (LLMs).

A recent gathering of experts in London, marking the 75-year anniversary of Turing's paper, agreed that the Turing Test has had its day and is now an unhelpful distraction.

Computing Machinery And Intelligence

Experts from various fields, including computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers, concur that it's time to retire the Turing Test.

Author's summary: Time to retire the Turing Test.

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