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Gary Marcus on Turing Test and Human Gullibility ================================================
Gary Marcus on Turing Test and Human Gullibility ================================================  ### Gary Marcus
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For years I have said that the Turing Test is a better measure of human gullibility than machine intelligence, but never have I seen that point demonstrated more vividly than in the first paragraph below:
#### Charbel-Raphael
@CRSegerie · 7h ago
To pass the Turing test, the winning strategy wasn't to make GPT-4.5 smarter. It was to make it worse: "be casual, make typos, be bad at math, a bit ignorant, don't try too hard".
With that persona, people chose GPT-4.5 as the human 73% of the time, more often than they chose the actual human (!). Without it? Just 36%. (Jones et al., 2025)
That's a bit ironic: we wanted to see if AI could reach the human level, but no human could produce pages of coherent, well-structured text in seconds. So to pass as one, the AI has to pretend it cannot.
I evaluate manipulation risks for the EU AI Office, with the very authors of this paper. What stays with me is this: the bar for "human" was never as high as we thought.Show More
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Gary Marcus argues that GPT-4.5 passing the Turing test by mimicking human flaws proves the test measures human gullibility rather than true machine intelligence.
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Gary Marcus critiques the validity of the Turing Test following a study (Jones et al., 2025) where GPT-4.5 successfully passed the test by adopting a persona that included typos, ignorance, and poor math skills. The AI was perceived as human 73% of the time when acting 'worse,' compared to only 36% when performing at its full capacity. Marcus uses this to reinforce his long-standing view that the Turing Test is a flawed benchmark that relies more on deceiving humans than demonstrating actual cognitive intelligence.
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