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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by wat10000 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:48AM (#47250219)
It's interesting how the Turing Test was pretty widely accepted as a way to evaluate machine intelligence, and then quietly abandoned pretty much instantly once machines were able to pass it. I don't even necessarily think that was incorrect, but it's interesting how rapidly views changed.

Dijkstra said, "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." Well, we have some very fish-y submarines these days. But the point still holds. Rather than worry about whether these things qualify as "intelligent," look at their actual capabilities. That's what matters.

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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by sambapa on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:45PM (#47251100)
As far as I know, we haven't done any proper Turing Tests for LLMs. And if we did, they would surely fail them.
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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by wat10000 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:45PM (#47252807)
"Proper" may be doing some work here, but such a test was run last year and GPT-4.5 and LLaMa-3.1-405B both passed. Oddly, GPT-4.5 was judged as human significantly more often than chance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674
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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by OkayPhysicist on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:49PM (#47251154)
Dude, you're in a Turing test right now. Conservatively, 10% of comments on this site are LLM output. We're all conversing with robots.
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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by sambapa on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:51PM (#47251182)
Nope, you are!
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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by bryan0 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:18PM (#47253202)
Basically the only reasonably proposed Turing test is the one defined in the Kurzweil-Kapor wager[0] which has never been attempted.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Kurzweil%E2%80%93K...

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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by pixl97 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:18PM (#47253205)
We will never prove AI is intelligent.

We will only prove humans aren't.

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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by df2dfs on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:38PM (#47256001)
And the machine came into existence all on its own did it? Another absolutely stupid comment.

Do you people actually 'think' before posting, or, have you handed that off to LLMs entirely?

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Re:Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Hims... by pixl97 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:50AM (#47261540)
I'm doubting you did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

>The AI effect refers to a phenomenon where either the definition of AI or the concept of intelligence is adjusted to exclude capabilities that AI systems have mastered

Hence once AI reaches the point of human intelligence, by the AI effect, humans will stop being intelligent.

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