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Voltaire Staff

Old Eliza beats ChatGPT 3.5 in Turing test


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A Turing test recently conducted by AI researchers saw Eliza, a 1960s chatbot, outperforming ChatGPT 3.5 by almost double the margin.


In a recent study published on arXiv in October, researchers Cameron Jones (a PhD student in Cognitive Science) and Benjamin Bergen (a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego) made a website called turingtest.live to organise an online version of the Turing test to see how well GPT-4 could convince people it was a human when given different prompts.


Through the website, people acted as questioners interacting with different AI programmes, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA, one of the earliest chatbots. The researchers randomly assigned two people to chat as if they were human, while others were always questioning the AI.