AI and the Future of Humanity – Modern Day Turing Test
David Wortley
Director
IORMA Health & Wellness Technology Centre (HWTC)
May 2025
Several months ago I collaborated with Dr Skip Basiel to run an online workshop on AI and, in particular, a modern day update of the Turing test. Alan Turing is regarded by many as the “Godfather of AI” as back in the Second World War when he was very instrumental in the Bletchley Park Codebreakers that helped the UK to win the war, he predicted a time when computers would become so intelligent that if you asked a computer and a human the same question, you would not be able to tell which was human and which was the computer. This test was known as “The Turing Test”.
Today we have gone well past that point with AI to a situation where you can tell the difference between an AI generated answer to a complex question and a human answer because the AI answer will be delivered much more quickly and comprehensively than a human could achieve.
For the workshop, recognising / believing that AI’s capabilities for generating creative content in text, sound/music and video also significantly exceed what humans could achieve, I created an updated version of the Turing test in which I asked whether people could tell the difference between AI generated words, music and video and human generation of the same story / message.
As an exercise, in the last 30 minutes, I asked AI to generate words and videos for 3 versions of the same storyline and I want to see how many people can tell which, if any, was written by a human and what is the likely author of the story?
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