Seventy-five years ago, Alan Turing published his famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in which he posed the now-classic question: Can machines think? Since defining both “machine” and “think” in an unambiguous way is nearly impossible, Turing proposed an alternative approach now known as the imitation game. The core idea is that a machine and a human each try to convince a judge that they are human—the judge must then decide which is which.
With the advent of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, some claim that these tools have effectively passed the Turing Test. But does this really mean that machines can think? This claim raises profound questions and concerns in modern society, particularly in academia and the research world.