The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Ai has no intelligence

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Ai has no intelligence

The idea that AI has no intelligence is supported by the fact that chatbots like ELIZA, from MIT's AI Lab in 1966, convinced people of its intelligence using simple pattern matching and canned responses.

Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake, as chatbots don't think, they just pretend to be intelligent by getting better at copying and pasting.

Alan Turing's 1950 test set a simple standard: if a judge can't tell whether they're conversing with a human or machine, the machine passes.

According to this metric, many chatbots are already considered "intelligent". Recent studies from Queen Mary University and University College London found that people can't reliably distinguish human voices from AI clones, which is a concern for the rest of us, but beneficial for scammers.

Author's summary: AI lacks true intelligence, only mimicking human-like conversations.

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The Register The Register — 2025-10-29

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