By https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/wren-gillett/103505396
Publication Date: 2026-05-30 03:59:00
Last March, the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego published the results of an experiment.
It had asked nearly 300 people to have a conversation with two mysterious partners, a human and an AI, and try to figure out who was which.
Many couldn’t.
When chatting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT GPT-4.5, which was designed to adopt a “human-like persona,” it was classified as human 73 percent of the time. Metas Llama 3 was classified as human 56 percent of the time.
For the first time, large language models had clearly passed the famous Turing Test, a thought experiment proposed in 1950 by British mathematician Alan Turing to test how intelligent these machines could become and whether they could ever think like us.
While Turing never intended the test to be a measure of consciousness, many people took it that way.
A year later, the question arises: “Can computers think?” is something that many people take very seriously.
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