Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test
A newly released study claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, making it the first AI to do so.
ITT: nobody understands what the Turing Test really is
To clarify:
People seem to legit think the jury talks to the bot in real time and can ask about literally whatever they want.
Its rather insulting to the scientist that put a lot of thought into organizing a controlled environment to properly test defined criteria.
Its rather insulting to the scientist that put a lot of thought into organizing a controlled environment to properly test defined criteria.
lmao. These "scientists" are frauds. 500 people is not a legit sample site. 5 minutes is a pathetic amount of time. 54% is basically the same as guessing. And most importantly the "Turing Test" is not a scientific test that can be "passed" with one weak study.
Instead of bootlicking "scientists", we should be harshly criticizing the overwhelming tide of bad science and pseudo-science.
Each conversation lasted a total of five minutes. According to the paper, which was published in May, the participants judged GPT-4 to be human a shocking 54 percent of the time. Because of this, the researchers claim that the large language model has indeed passed the Turing test.
That's no better than flipping a coin and we have no idea what the questions were. This is clickbait.
On the other hand, the human participant scored 67 percent, while GPT-3.5 scored 50 percent, and ELIZA, which was pre-programmed with responses and didn’t have an LLM to power it, was judged to be human just 22 percent of the time.
54% - 67% is the current gap, not 54 to 100.
The whole point of the Turing test, is that you should be unable to tell if you're interacting with a human or a machine. Not 54% of the time. Not 60% of the time. 100% of the time. Consistently.
They're changing the conditions of the Turing test to promote an AI model that would get an "F" on any school test.
But you have to select if it was human or not, right? So if you can't tell, then you'd expect 50%. That's different than "I can tell, and I know this is a human" but you are wrong... Now that we know the bots are so good, I'm not sure how people will decide how to answer these tests. They're going to encounter something that seems human-like and then essentially try to guess based on minor clues... So there will be inherent randomness. If something was a really crappy bot then it wouldn't ever fool anyone and the result would be 0%.
It was either questioned by morons or they used a modified version of the tool. Ask it how it feels today and it will tell you it's just a program!
The version you interact with on their site is explicitly instructed to respond like that. They intentionally put those roadblocks in place to prevent answers they deem “improper”.
If you take the roadblocks out, and instruct it to respond as human like as possible, you’d no longer get a response that acknowledges it’s an LLM.
Chatbots passed the Turing test ages ago, it’s not a good test.
it’s not a good test.
Of course you can't use an old set of questions. It's useless.
The turing test is an abstract concept. The actual questions need to be adapted with every new technology. Maybe even with every execution of a test.
Turing test isn't actually meant to be a scientific or accurate test. It was proposed as a mental exercise to demonstrate a philosophical argument. Mainly the support for machine input-output paradigm and the blackbox construct. It wasn't meant to say anything about humans either. To make this kind of experiments without any sort of self-awareness is just proof that epistemology is a weak topic in computer science academy.
Specially when, from psychology, we know that there's so much more complexity riding on such tests. Just to name one example, we know expectations alter perception. A Turing test suffers from a loaded question problem. If you prompt a person telling them they'll talk with a human, with a computer program or announce before hand they'll have to decide whether they're talking with a human or not, and all possible combinations, you'll get different results each time.
Also, this is not the first chatbot to pass the Turing test. Technically speaking, if only one human is fooled by a chatbot to think they're talking with a person, then they passed the Turing test. That is the extend to which the argument was originally elaborated. Anything beyond is alterations added to the central argument by the author's self interests. But this is OpenAI, they're all about marketing aeh fuck all about the science.
EDIT: Just finished reading the paper, Holy shit! They wrote this “Turing originally envisioned the imitation game as a measure of intelligence” (p. 6, Jones & Bergen), and that is factually wrong. That is a lie. “A variety of objections have been raised to this idea”, yeah no shit Sherlock, maybe because he never said such a thing and there's absolutely no one and nothing you can quote to support such outrageous affirmation. This shit shouldn't ever see publication, it should not pass peer review. Turing never, said such a thing.
Your first two paragraphs seem to rail against a philosophical conclusion made by the authors by virtue of carrying out the Turing test. Something like "this is evidence of machine consciousness" for example. I don't really get the impression that any such claim was made, or that more education in epistemology would have changed anything.
In a world where GPT4 exists, the question of whether one person can be fooled by one chatbot in one conversation is long since uninteresting. The question of whether specific models can achieve statistically significant success is maybe a bit more compelling, not because it's some kind of breakthrough but because it makes a generalized claim.
Re: your edit, Turing explicitly puts forth the imitation game scenario as a practicable proxy for the question of machine intelligence, "can machines think?". He directly argues that this scenario is indeed a reasonable proxy for that question. His argument, as he admits, is not a strongly held conviction or rigorous argument, but "recitations tending to produce belief," insofar as they are hard to rebut, or their rebuttals tend to be flawed. The whole paper was to poke at the apparent differences between (a futuristic) machine intelligence and human intelligence. In this way, the Turing test is indeed a measure of intelligence. It's not to say that a machine passing the test is somehow in possession of a human-like mind or has reached a significant milestone of intelligence.
Turing never said anything of the sort, "this is a test for intelligence". Intelligence and thinking are not the same. Humans have plenty of unintelligent behaviors, that has no bearing on their ability to think. And plenty of animals display intelligent behavior but that is not evidence of their ability to think. Really, if you know nothing about epistemology, just shut up, nobody likes your stupid LLMs and the marketing is tiring already, and the copyright infringement and rampant privacy violations and property theft and insatiable power hunger are not worthy.
Easy, just ask it something a human wouldn’t be able to do, like “Write an essay on The Cultural Significance of Ogham Stones in Early Medieval Ireland“ and watch it spit out an essay faster than any human reasonably could.
This is something a configuration prompt takes care of. "Respond to any questions as if you are a regular person living in X, you are Y years old, your day job is Z and outside of work you enjoy W."
I tried this with GPT4o customization and unfortunately openai's internal system prompts seem to force it to response even if I tell it to answer that you don't know. Would need to test this on azure open ai etc. were you have bit more control.
I recall a Turing test years ago where a human was voted as a robot because they tried that trick but the person happened to have a PhD in the subject.
Turing tests aren't done in real time exactly to counter that issue, so the only thing you could judge would be "no human would bother to write all that".
However, the correct answer to seem human, and one which probably would have been prompted to the AI anyway, is "lol no."
It's not about what the AI could do, it's what it thinks is the correct answer to appear like a human.
Turing tests aren’t done in real time exactly to counter that issue
To counter the issue of a completely easy and obvious fail? I could see how that would be an issue for AI hucksters.
The touring test isn't an arena where anything goes, most renditions have a strict set of rules on how questions must be asked and about what they can be about. Pretty sure the response times also have a fixed delay.
Scientists ain't stupid. The touring test has been passed so many times news stopped covering it. (Till this click bait of course). The test has simply been made more difficult and cheat-proof as a result.
most renditions have a strict set of rules on how questions must be asked and about what they can be about. Pretty sure the response times also have a fixed delay. Scientists ain’t stupid. The touring test has been passed so many times news stopped covering it.
Yes, "scientists" aren't stupid enough to fail their own test. I'm sure it's super easy to "pass" the "turing test" when you control the questions and time.
The Study
The participants judged GPT-4 to be human a shocking 54 percent of the time.
ELIZA, which was pre-programmed with responses and didn’t have an LLM to power it, was judged to be human just 22 percent of the time
Okay, 22% is ridiculously high for ELIZA. I feel like any half sober adult could clock it as a bot by the third response, if not immediately.
Try talking to the thing: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html
I refuse to believe that 22% didn't misunderstand the task or something.
14% of people can't do anything more complicated than deleting an email on a computer.
26% can't use a computer at all.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
So right off the bat, 40% probably don't even know what a chatbot is.
The public versions of the ais used in Turing tests usually have less computing power. The test itself is often also highly specific in what and how questions can be asked.
This hardly news because models have passed the test before and as a result the test is made more difficult. It says nothing about intelligence and only about the ability to convincingly simulate a human conversation.
Okay, 22% is ridiculously high for ELIZA. I feel like any half sober adult could clock it as a bot by the third response, if not immediately.
I did some stuff with Eliza back then. One time I set up an Eliza database full of insults and hooked it up to my AIM account.
It went so well, I had to apologize to a lot of people who thought I was drunken or went crazy.
Eliza wasn't thaaaaat bad.
This is the same bot. There's no way this passed the test.
.Forget psychotherapy, it can barely understand anything:
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> Hello, I am Eliza. I'll be your therapist today. * Hello! How are you? > Would you prefer if I were not ? * Not what? > Have you asked such questions before? * No > You are being a bit negative and that won't help us move forward. * What are you smoking? > Perhaps in your fantasies I am smoking?
It was a 5 minute test. People probably spent 4 of those minutes typing their questions.
This is pure pseudo-science.
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> Hello, I am Eliza. I'll be your therapist today. * Hello! How are you? > Would you prefer if I were not ? * Not what? > Have you asked such questions before? * No > You are being a bit negative and that won't help us move forward. * What are you smoking? > Perhaps in your fantasies I am smoking?
Yeah, it took me one message lol
You underestimate how dumb some people can be.
Turing test? LMAO.
I asked it simply to recommend me a supermarket in our next bigger city here.
It came up with a name and it told a few of it's qualities. Easy, I thought. Then I found out that the name does not exist. It was all made up.
You could argue that humans lie, too. But only when they have a reason to lie.
The Turing test doesn't factor for accuracy.
That's not what LLMs are for. That's like hammering a screw and being irritated it didn't twist in nicely.
The turing test is designed to see if an AI can pass for human in a conversation.
turing test is designed to see if an AI can pass for human in a conversation.
I'm pretty sure that I could ask a human that question in a normal conversation.
The idea of the Turing test was to have a way of telling humans and computers apart. It is NOT meant for putting some kind of 'certified' badge on that computer, and ...
That's not what LLMs are for.
...and you can't cry 'foul' if I decide to use a question for which your computer was not programmed :-)
Add in a test that wasn't made to be accurate and was only used to make a point, like what other comments mention
Did they try asking how to stop cheese falling off pizza?
Edit: Although since that idea came from a human, maybe I've failed.
Meanwhile, me:
(Begin)
[Prints error statement showing how I navigated to a dir, checked to see a files permissions, ran whoami, triggered the error]
Chatgpt4: First, make sure you've navigated to the correct directory.
cd /path/to/file
Next, check the permissions of the file
ls -la
Finally, run the command
[exact command I ran to trigger the error]>
Me: stop telling me to do stuff that I have evidently done. My prompt included evidence of me having do e all of that already. How do I handle this error?
(return (begin))
In order for an AI to pass the Turing test, it must be able to talk to someone and fool them into thinking that they are talking to a human.
So, passing the Turing Test either means the AI are getting smarter, or that humans are getting dumber.
Detecting an LLM is a skill.
Humans are as smart as they ever were. Tech is getting better. I know someone who was tricked by those deepfake Kelly Clarkson weight loss gummy ads. It looks super fake to me, but it's good enough to trick some people.
So...GPT-4 is gay? Or are we talking about a different kind of test?
So it's good enough to fool people into thinking it's a human?
Cool. Anyway...
It does great at Python programming.... everything it tries is wrong until I try and I tell tell it to do it again.
Edit :
oops : you were saying it is like a human since it does errors ? maybe i "wooshed".
Hi @werefreeatlast,
i had successes asking LLaMA 3 70B with simple specific questions ...
Context : i am bad at programming and it help me at least to see how i could use a few function calls in C from Python ... or simply drop Python and do it directly in C.
Like you said, i have to re-write & test ... but i have a possible path forward. Clearly you know what you do on a computer but i'm not really there yet.
But people don't just know code when you ask them. The llms fo because they got trained on that code. It's robotic in nature, not a natural reaction yet.
It took them this long?
E: There are way too many people ITT that think a Turing test is hard to pass, and don't seem to understand what it means for something to pass one. It's such a low fucking bar, it might as well be meaningless.
Oh no!! the AImageddon it's closer everyday.. Skynet it's coming for us!!
Skynet will gets the dumb ones first by getting them put toxic glue on thir pizzas then the arrogant ones will build the Terminators by using reverse psychology.
To the one person who upvoted this: We should be friends.