Did LaMDa just pass the Turing test? - Quora
Anthony Atkielski
Jun 16
No. The bot uses friendly phrases, but you can still tell that something is amiss, if you observe the conversation closely. Of course, many people don’t really listen to others to begin with, so they are unlikely to notice. This was truer even with ELIZA.
So it was fakery by seeming friendly.
I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE | Mind | Oxford Academic
Alan Turing,
Mind, Volume LIX, Issue 236, October 1950, Pages 433–460, 01 October 1950
He decided to short-circuit the question of whether or not computers can think by asking if they can act like they think. Thus, his Turing Test, of whether a chatbot's conversation can be indistinguishable from a human being's conversation.
He imagined this example:
Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.
A: Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry.
Q: Add 34957 to 70764
A: (Pause about 30 seconds and then give as answer) 105621.
Q: Do you play chess?
A: Yes.
Q: I have K at my K1, and no other pieces. You have only K at K6 and R at R1. It is your move. What do you play?
A: (After a pause of 15 seconds) R-R8 mate.
I'm not very familiar with the Forth Bridge - it's a railroad bridge a little northwest of Edinburgh, Scotland.
One of them is an effort to imitate doing calculations in one's head. 30 seconds, then an incorrect answer. The correct one is 105721, and most computer hardware can do it much faster -- and will take much longer to format the result and emit it than to calculate it.
The chess notation is old descriptive notation, something now superseded by algebraic notation. I'll imitate it in algebraic notation and disambiguate it for that notation:
Q: I am White and my K is at e1, and I have no other pieces. You are Black and your K is at e3 and your R at h8, and you also have no other pieces. What do you play?
A: (After a pause of 15 seconds) Rh1 mate.
