[semi-extrinsic]

> the TT is clearly an inadequate test, which some argued for decades before LLMs became a reality

To be specific, in a curious quirk of fate, LLMs seem to be proving right much of what Chomsky was saying about language.

E.g. in 1996 he described the Turing test as "although highly influential, it seems to me not only foreign to the sciences but also close to senseless".

(Curious in that VC backed businesses are experimentally verifying the views of a prominent anti-capitalist socialist.)

[YeGoblynQueenne]

From my personal notes (I love taking notes on this kind of stuff):

  As far as I can see all of this [he's speaking about the Loebner Prize and
  the Turing test in general] is entirely pointless. It's like asking how we
  can determine empirically whether an aeroplane can fly the answer being if
  it can fool someone into thinking that it's an eagle under some conditions.
                                                                            

https://youtu.be/0hzCOsQJ8Sc?si=MUXpmIwAzcla9lvK&t=2052