Five artificial intelligence (AI) models, one each adopting the role of Aristotle, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra and Genghis Khan, are sitting inside the compartment of a moving train. But one is secretly human, and it’s their collective task to guess the imposter.
That’s the setup of a viral video that pitted a range of AI programs against a human player in a “reverse Turing test.” The AI won handily, but how much can it teach us about human and machine intelligence?
The Turing test, first suggested by computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 as the “imitation game,” is a method for judging a machine’s ability to show intelligent behavior that’s indistinguishable from a human’s. No AI model is widely recognized as having passed the test, although scientists recently claimed GPT-4 has in a preprint study.
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