Why It’s Time to Sunset the Turing Test
In 1950, Alan Mathison Turing published a paper outlining ways to assess emerging machine intelligences.
The Turing Test, embodied in the paper "Computing Machinery And Intelligence", has served as a yardstick to measure AI intelligence.
A recent meeting in London, observing the 75-year anniversary of Turing's paper, concluded that the Turing Test has had its day and should be retired.
The Turing Test has served as a yardstick by which the smarts of everything from the earliest hard-coded medical expert systems to today’s hallucinating large language models (LLMs), have been measured.
A gathering of experts, including computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers, agreed that it is time to retire the Turing Test as an unhelpful distraction.
Author's summary: Turing Test is outdated.