I was looking into the Alan Turing and his Turing test as he proposed and reading some books. I feel skeptical regarding the fact that we have even reached at the level of Artificial Intelligence. It feels like we have not created a Turing machine yet.

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      7 days ago

      a turing machine is a theoretical device that can perform any computation. a language model is a set of matrix multiplications that takes a list of words and gives back the statistically most likely next word.

      your question is like asking if novels have become language.

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          7 days ago

          sorry i should have expanded on that:

          turing machines are conceptual, like language. they are a theoretical means to formalise and generalise an idea (meaningful computation/communication).

          language models are real, like novels. they are one possible use of the concept (word prediction/telling a story).

          a novel is a specific implementation of some parts of the idea of language, like a language model is a specific implementation of some parts of the idea of computation embodied by the turing machine concept.