Rizwan Virk

There was a prize that was set up by a guy named Loebner back in the 90s called the Loebner Prize for which chatbot is closest to passing the Turing test.

And it went on for many years.

In fact, there was a chatbot called Alice back in the early, late 90s, early 2000s that was supposed to have the personality of a young woman.

And it was getting pretty good.

I think it was the winner of the Loebner Prize, but no one won the grand prize.

And it went all the way through 2019 and it became defunct.

And now they're running these experiments where they have a thousand people talking to ChatGPT.

And so the

Most scholars think we're pretty close or we've already passed the Turing test.

But in my book, Simulation Hypothesis, I talk about the metaverse Turing test.

And it gets back to the point that you just made about no human would put up with me for that long.

But the idea is if you're inside a video game, there's you, your character, there's an NPC, and then there's an avatar controlled by a human.

And you can go do whatever you do inside the video game, like inside Second Life.

You can go have a swimming pool.

You can go to Starship Enterprise.

You can do whatever you would do.

You can go dancing.

You can have virtual sex, whatever.

And then if you can't figure out whether which one is the NPC and which one is controlled by the human, then it would pass what I call the metaverse or the virtual Turing test.

Now, we haven't passed that yet, but we do have smart NPCs now.