alt Hacker Newswhen was the turing test beaten?
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The EU just had to pass a law to force companies to disclose if a customer service agent is AI or Human. It is beaten.
https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/safer-and-m...
According to Psychology today, April this year by GPT 4.5
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-digital-self/202...
I think it was determined that the Turing test is too easy because humans are too easily fooled.
The Turing test is more complex than what gets suggested.
And the "popularized" version is faulty also since it uses an ideal, abstract human judge (like the "spheroidal economic agent").
But if you want to add declinations to the said popularized image of the Turing test, you may add Maxim Lott's IQ tests at trackingai.org . Between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 LLMs reached an equivalent IQ of 100, for example.
~1960
ELIZA beat the Turing test and then everyone forgot about it. Humans are just really terrible at recognising robots.
Or can we reframe it: when did humans start losing the (so-called) "Turing test".
I think there are elements showing lowering of performance and expectation.
2001 according to Wikipedia
It depends who takes the test. I am not yet, to my knowledge, fooled by AI.
I've tried [1] and I almost 100% detect which is the AI. I really want to convince myself I have failed, does anyone know of a better site/resource for this?
I know it might be moving goalposts but I would consider AI to have passed in a well and truly undisputed manner when [2] is resolved.
But in a more practical sense, if AI can impersonate humans so well today then why are state of the art frontier models so obviously AI when they create PRs, commit messages, documentation, etc. Are the companies deliberately making them unnatural?
[2] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11861/date-when-ai-passe...
2050 I'm guessing
are you living under a rock?
1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
It turns out the limiting factor isn't how sophisticated algorithms are, it's how gullible humans are.