Rizwan Virk

And when you wanted to talk to the character, the character would basically, you know, tell you what they said.

And then there would be these choices and you'd have to choose one of them.

So it's basically a dialogue tree.

So those were like simple, dumb NPCs where the creators of the game have laid out all the paths.

Kind of like the old choose your own adventure.

Yeah, they're not very advanced.

But today we're starting to get smart NPCs.

So what's happened with the Turing test

which was this test that Alan Turing proposed way back in 1950, actually.

And he was talking about AI as a computer, right?

Today, we think of AI as software.

But he was basically saying, look, if you are passing messages behind two curtains, curtain A and curtain B, and one of those has a computer, again, he's thinking of physical computer, and one of those is a human, and you can just pass messages back and forth.

Now, back then, he was thinking of teletype machines.

But, you know, we could think of it as text messages or just a chatbot today.

Then if you can't tell the difference, then that computer has passed the Turing test.

He actually called it the imitation game in his paper, which was the name of a movie about him, which was not about the Turing test at all.

It was about his other work, his code breaking work.

But so most people believe today that we've passed the Turing test in that many of these chat GPT-like LLM engines, it's very difficult to tell if a human is behind it or not.

That said, I mean, you can kind of tell when something is AI-generated more because of the length of what they're doing and the patterns that are there.

Yeah, so you can tell from the more or less still, but there have been experiments done now.