2023/07/16

Science Fiction Writer Tim Maughan Shuts Down Inflection AI CEO’s Modern Turing Test

“Be less scared of large language models, be more scared of the people that own them saying things like ‘the new Turing Test should be can an AI make a million dollars.’”
– Science fiction writer Tim Maughan, rejecting Inflection AI co-founder and CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s suggestion to measure “what an AI can DO, not just what it can SAY”—in money. In MIT Technology Review (and a forthcoming book), Suleyman proposes the Modern Turing Test to be: “Go make $1 million.”
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