Prof Sarah Dillon
@profsarahdillon.bsky.social
Academic, Writer and Broadcaster. Professor of Literature and the Public Humanities, University of Cambridge. Author of Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2021) and of Turing's Literature (currently writing).
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My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is based on the recent meeting at the Royal Society celebrating 50 years of the Turing Test, at which several folks suggested it was time to retire it.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Was the Turing Test always meaningless?
A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is based on the recent meeting at the Royal Society celebrating 50 years of the Turing Test, at which several folks suggested it was time to retire it.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Reposted by Prof Sarah Dillon
Where do the world famous LLM sceptic @garymarcus.bsky.social & his bud Laurence Fishburne (AKA Morpheus) like to hang out? The Royal Society of course! 🧪🤖
Here's my write up from @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's my write up from @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Where do the world famous LLM sceptic @garymarcus.bsky.social & his bud Laurence Fishburne (AKA Morpheus) like to hang out? The Royal Society of course! 🧪🤖
Here's my write up from @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's my write up from @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Prof Sarah Dillon
Tomorrow 17 Nov we are welcoming Prof Sarah Dillon of the Cambridge English Faculty for a talk ""Pryce's Buoy": Alan Turing's Short Story and Homosexual Literature." All welcome to join us in person in ARB S1 at 12:30 or online at the link in the poster!
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tomorrow 17 Nov we are welcoming Prof Sarah Dillon of the Cambridge English Faculty for a talk ""Pryce's Buoy": Alan Turing's Short Story and Homosexual Literature." All welcome to join us in person in ARB S1 at 12:30 or online at the link in the poster!