75 Years of the Turing Test: Why It Still Matters for AI
It took an emotionally complex man, Alan Turing, to first imagine a world in which machines could 'think', writes Satyen K. Bordoloi.
The author recalls an experience in 2019 where an AI system created an original joke, which after thorough search, seemed to be entirely new, eliciting a spontaneous human response.
This experience led the author to wonder: Have machines already passed the Turing Test?
It left me convinced the AI had managed to synthesise and recombine what existed to create something entirely new.
This phenomenon is attributed to the work of Alan Turing, who formulated the Turing Test.
Author's summary: Exploring the significance of the Turing Test.