LLMs Pass the Turing Test

Cameron Jones and Benjamin Bergen (31 Mar 2025). Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test. arXiv:2503.23674

This paper seems worthy of contemplation, and clearly celebration for this team from UC San Diego for demonstrating the first empirical evidence that any artificial system passes a standard three-party Turing Test. Time to up the bar. Can the AI nae nae?

Determining an intelligent system requires deep review and contemplation of what constitutes intelligence and how this can be observed and verified. In the early days of aritifial intelligence research there seemed to be deeper regard of human cognitive science research, and books like Minksy’s Society of Mind framed some of the key arenas of consideration that I think are still relevant today. This is a place where academics can shine as we watch enterprise AI teams accelerating the adoption of their products, most likely without really thinking through the long-term impacts of interacting with intelligent systems, particularly across the developmental arc of the human lifespan. Who are your favorite thinkers addressing who we are and who we become under such learning conditions? It makes sense we dialogue openly about our possibilities and concerns.