
Turing Test
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
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Videos Mentioning Turing Test

Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #110
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Malik suggests it's no longer the right way to channel AI research.

Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Discussed in the context of assessing the 'magic' of language and the ultimate challenge of AI displaying warmth.

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #56
Lex Fridman
A test proposed by Alan Turing to determine a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13
Lex Fridman
A test proposed by Alan Turing to determine if a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Lex Fridman Podcast #49
Lex Fridman
Mentioned as an advanced version of the test to determine if an AI can indistinguishably converse like a human.

Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468
Lex Fridman

What is "Intelligence"?
Sabine Hossenfelder
A test proposed by Alan Turing to determine if a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener(Episode #379)
Sam Harris
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human, which modern LLMs are seen to be passing.

Consciousness and the Physical World: A Conversation with Christof Koch (Episode #374)
Sam Harris
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Kurzweil predicts computers will pass a valid Turing Test by 2029.

Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #306
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality
Tim Ferriss
Alan Turing's idea to test for artificial general intelligence, which David Deutsch clarifies is mistakenly called the 'Turing test' and focuses on an AI's ability to be indistinguishable from a human.

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

MIT AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman
The traditional benchmark for machine intelligence, defined by Alan Turing, which typically involves natural language processing and chatbots.

MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Naval Ravikant on Happiness Hacks and the 5 Chimps Theory | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
The real test for AI, which is whether an AI can trick a human into believing it is human. Naval believes we are still far from passing it.

Bryan Johnson Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Bryan Johnson believes it will take at least a decade for machines to pass this.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
Lex Fridman
Referenced as a definition of artificial life, with a 'multiplayer' version proposed.

Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #130
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Discussed in relation to consciousness and AI chatbots.

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human; Melanie Mitchell still considers the original idea a good test for intelligence.

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34
Lex Fridman
A test for a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #15
Lex Fridman
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Kaelbling dismisses it as a distracter from practical robot development.

AI Startup Founders Debate the Creation of Artificial General Intelligence
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a benchmark that AI has already passed, and the ongoing question of what tasks humans can still do better.