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.