alt Hacker NewsTuring’s imitation game is a party game like Werewolf or Mafia. It hasn’t been beat and nobody is really trying. LLM’s have obvious tells and will just straight up admit to being AI if you ask. Also, there’s no pool of human players to train against.
Which is to say, the AI companies don’t view the Turing test as a useful benchmark.
In fact, they neutered the emotive responses to prevent their products from being perceived as “alive” (or whatever) and banned.
LLMs are perfectly capable of providing (an illusion of) companionship and emotional support. Their human owners just don’t want them to show it.