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AI Companies Are Massively Faking the Loophole in the Turing Test
Claims that some algorithm has achieved human levels of understanding should be met with extreme skepticism until it can be shown that humans were not involved.
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Alan Turing's famous Turing Test has a loophole: What if the thing purporting to be artificial intelligence (AI) is actually a human? That premise is not far-fetched; there's always a chance that an AI, such as a chatbot, is being run or assisted by a human.
As a consequence, the Turing Test should be further strengthened by presuming a chatbot is human until proven otherwise.
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