https://splint.rs/tags/lies/ Recent content in Lies on Splint.rs Hugo -- gohugo.io en CC0 or whatever, I'm not your dad Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://splint.rs/posts/turing_test/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://splint.rs/posts/turing_test/ <p>Alan Turing invented the primordial computer, and people felt so eager to imagine that the ticker-tape might come alive and have a chat that he immediately had to invent a test to stop them waffling about 'what it means to be conscious'. Nothing has ever passed this test, but chatbot companies do love to say they do, repeatedly, in myriad ways.</p> <p>Hearing for the third time that year that 'Chatbot 3.5 has now passed the Turing test with an A+, far outpacing the others' felt tiresome quickly. But at least I had the comfort of Wikipedia, so I could send whatever miscreant shared this guff on the web, and show them the actual Turing Test, and how the Chatbots had passed no such test.</p>