A Chatbot Has Passed a Critical Test For Human-Like Intelligence. Now What?

A Chatbot Has Passed a Critical Test For Human-Like Intelligence. Now What?

There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test.

Beyond the imitation game: GPT-4.5, the Turing Test, and what comes next

What happens when machines not only speak like us but begin to mirror the subtleties of our personalities, emotions, and intentions — and we can no longer tell the difference?

75 years ago, one of the leading computer pioneers, Alan Turing, devised a test to determine whether computers of the future would have intelligence comparable to human intelligence. Turing’s test states that the machine is intelligent if it succeeds in tricking a person into believing that he is a human. For three quarters of a century, what the English scientist called “the imitation game” of computers has not been consistent enough to conside…