Turing Test, Chinese Room, and Large Language Models

The Turing Test is a classic idea within the field of AI. Originally called the imitation game, Alan Turing proposed this test in 1950, in his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. The goal of the test is to ascertain whether a machine exhibits intelligent behavior on par with (and perhaps indistinguishable from) that of a human.

The test goes like this: An interrogator (player C) sits alone in a …

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