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Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by akoboldfrying on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:32PM (#49396064)
> It hasn’t been passed

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

From the abstract: "When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant. LLaMa-3.1, with the same prompt, was judged to be the human 56% of the time"

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by jaccola on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:37AM (#49397505)
Low n, time bound, not reproduced. And look at their example conversations…

And people forget that sometimes humans message twice. An LLM can only respond. So it immediately fails here in a true Turing test. (You could loop the LLM but then I expect even more immediately obvious bot behaviour).

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by akoboldfrying on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:42AM (#49398377)
> Low n

Are you serious? From the paper:

> We recruited 126 participants from the UCSD psychology undergraduate subject pool and 158 participants from Prolific (Prolific, 2025).

Each human participated in 8 rounds.

> time bound

The time bound of 5 minutes was suggested by Turing himself in his original paper.

> not reproduced

It was reproduced across two populations within the paper.

> And look at their example conversations

This is irrelevant.

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by jaccola on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:45AM (#49398761)
A paper can’t reproduce its self. And he didn’t formulate the test with a 5 minute bound he just predicted that by the year 2000 that within 5 minutes an average interrogator would have a sub 70% chance of guessing correctly.

And it’s all irrelevant. If one human on earth can consistently get it right then it hasn’t been passed since clearly that human can somehow determine between them (whereas no one would ever be able to determine between a true “human intelligence” by definition).

And as it stands almost everyone could tell between them when allowed to discuss whatever they want for any length of time.

The fact these researchers have to keep adding bounds shows it hasn’t been passed. If we are arguing over technicalities maybe it isn’t as obviously intelligent as claimed!

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by akoboldfrying on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:11PM (#49401125)
> And he didn’t formulate the test with a 5 minute bound he just predicted that by the year 2000 that within 5 minutes an average interrogator would have a sub 70% chance of guessing correctly.

Right, the test duration was left unspecified. This means any duration is acceptable. Including, for example, the only duration actually mentioned by Turing himself in his paper. Or do you have a more authoritative source on which durations are acceptable?

> If one human on earth can consistently get it right then it hasn’t been passed

Says who? Not Turing. Probably he didn't say that because it would make the test both impractical and overly conservative.

> The fact these researchers have to keep adding bounds

What "bounds"?

The speed of the goalposts here is just amazing.