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mrweasel • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The Turing test is interesting, because I believe that the current LLMs are perfectly capable of parsing the it in many situations. On the other hand we also have people are sound like they aren't real.

Looking back, was the Turing test flawed perhaps? It failed to take into account that humans can be rather bad at telling actual people from a "parrot". Turing was perhaps a little to optimistic about people.


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christina97 • today at 2:02 AM

That is the entire point of it. When it’s hard to tell what’s the machine and what’s a human, that’s precisely the definition of passing it.

bluefirebrand • yesterday at 7:17 PM

Of course the Turing test was flawed. We already knew that based on the Chinese Room argument.

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suopspaces • yesterday at 6:59 PM

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