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My whole life the Turing test has been my benchmark. Mostly because I believed it would be impossible for a machine to pass, but also because I thought it was the most reasonable test of AGI.So, I'm not about to start moving goalposts now and calling everything that's been happening lately not AGI.

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Turing never proposed that test as an actual benchmark of machine intelligence. On the contrary, the whole point of his thesis was that passing the test only shows the capability to pass that test, which only matters as far as we find that capability useful. He was arguing that the concept of intelligence just doesn't apply to studying machines, we should simply talk about what can they do.

Okay, I believe you; mostly because you appear to be a human and I'm not really in the mood to read through a paper from 1950 at the moment.

But I still stand by it being _my_ benchmark for machine intelligence, which is all I was claiming.

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