In an essay published in the 1950s, mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing proposed the Turing test. This has become one of the most important milestones in artificial intelligence research and development and has now put ChatGPT to the test.

Can machines think? That was the question that Alan Turing posed at the head of his landmark 1950 article, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ and ChatGPT has unearthed this doubt again.

If you have been in contact with artificial intelligence (AI), you will undoubtedly have heard of the ‘Turing Test’. This is a test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, designed to be the definitive experiment on whether or not an AI has reached the level of human intelligence.

Conceptually, if the AI ​​is able to pass the test, it has achieved an intelligence equivalent to or indistinguishable from that of a human. As the popularity of ChatGPT increases, many are wondering: Can this chatbot pass the Turing test?

The reality is that by investigating it can be stated that the AI ​​model has not yet been subjected to a test of Turing adequate. One major problem with trying to Turing test ChatGPT is that the AI ​​likes to specify that it is a language model in the conversation. Obviously, this is a great gift that the machine is not human.

However, some media already claim that ChatGPT has become the second artificial intelligenceafter LaMDA—Google—, to pass the Turing test.

How did ChatGPT pass the Turing test?

As reported, he chatbot he got past it by tricking a panel of judges into thinking he was human. This was achieved through a combination of natural language processing, dialogue management, and social skills.

They comment that ChatGPT’s performance in the Turing test was impressive. In a series of tests, it was able to converse with human testers and very realistically mimic human-like responses. In some cases, testers were unable to distinguish ChatGPT responses from those of a human.

ChatGPT’s success in the Turing test is an important milestone for AI research. It shows that the GPT-3 language model, and by extension large language models in general, have the ability to produce human-like responses that can fool even experienced testers, which turns out in favor of this chatbot.

With all this on the table, the truth is that Little fear must be had of these affirmations. The Turing test is currently really outdated as reliable proof of the potential danger of artificial intelligence.