Turing test

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2023 by Gary Marcus · across every show →

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Feb 23, 2023 negative
Opinion
Marcus: The Turing test was an error in AI history
“I think that the Turing test was an error in, in AI history. I mean, Turing's obviously a brilliant man, and he, you know, made enormous contributions to computer science, but I think that the Turing test has been an exercise in fooling people. We've now solve…”
Gary Marcus Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 43:53 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Feb 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Lemoine: Kurzweil's Google lab mission was explicitly to pass Turing test
“So, like, Lambda came out of Ray Kurzweil's lab, and his lab's explicit corporate mission was to pass the Turing test.”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 50:07 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Jul 29, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diamandis: AI Passed the Turing Test Months or Years Ago
“There was the Turing test of, you know, which got passed some months or years back without even being noticed. Because you can't tell the difference now in having a chat with a lot of the chat bots, whether they're human or not.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 11:54 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
Feb 25, 2026 negative
Insight
Pollan argues the Turing test fails as a test for consciousness
“The Turing test doesn't work for this consciousness question. It was designed for the intelligence question which is somewhat simpler.”
Michael Pollan Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 21:03 Can AI Become Conscious? — With Michael Pollan
Jul 15, 2026 negative
Insight
Schmidhuber: Turing test is a bad metric for measuring true intelligence
“However, it just means that the Turing test is a bad way of measuring intelligence, because there is no AI in the physical world, outside of the screen, that can do all the things that a little boy can do, that can do the things that a plumber can do.”
Jürgen Schmidhuber Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 5:12 AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
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