AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?

Seventy-five years after Alan Turing asked whether machines could think, scientists are asking a different question: should we even be trying to measure it that way? At a Royal Society event in London, researchers argued that the famous Turing test has outlived its purpose. Instead of asking whether AI can mimic humans, they say, we should be asking what it can do safely and usefully. The new goal isn’t imitation—it’s building technology that genuinely serves people. Elizabeth Gibney with Nature has the story on the old test that’s revealing a need to think in new terms.

Elizabeth Gibney

Nature

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