I actually like the Turing Test a lot (and wrote about it in my ‘Mating Mind’ book as a metaphor for human courtship & sexual selection).
But it’s not a very high bar to pass. The early chatbot Eliza passed the Turing Test (sort of, arguably) in 1966, when many people interacting with it really thought it was human.
I think the mistake a lot of people from Turing onwards made was assuming that a few minutes of interaction makes a good Turing Test. I’d argue that a few months of sustained interaction is a more reliable and valid way to assess intelligence—the kind of thing that humans do when courting, choosing mates, and falling in love.
I actually like the Turing Test a lot (and wrote about it in my ‘Mating Mind’ book as a metaphor for human courtship & sexual selection).
But it’s not a very high bar to pass. The early chatbot Eliza passed the Turing Test (sort of, arguably) in 1966, when many people interacting with it really thought it was human.
I think the mistake a lot of people from Turing onwards made was assuming that a few minutes of interaction makes a good Turing Test. I’d argue that a few months of sustained interaction is a more reliable and valid way to assess intelligence—the kind of thing that humans do when courting, choosing mates, and falling in love.