'Reverse Turing test' asks AI agents to spot a human imposter — you'll never guess how they figure it out

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Five artificial intelligence models, one each adopting the role of Aristotle, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra and Genghis Khan, are sitting inside the compartment of a moving train. But one is secretly human, and it's their collective task to guess the imposter.

In this"reverse" Turing test, the chatbots were scripted to proceed in order. Aristotle was played by GPT-4 Turbo, Mozart by Claude-3 Opus, Leonardo da Vinci by Llama 3 and Cleopatra by Gemini Pro. The chatbots asked each other questions and responded as their historical characters. Genghis Khan was played by a human — Tore Knabe, a virtual reality game developer, who devised the test.

Read more: 'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it "When an NPC is supposed to speak, they get the description of the setup in the system prompt, the full conversation history of what everybody has said so far, and a specific reminder of what to do next," Knabe wrote in a YouTube comment posted below the video."None of the AIs can process voice directly yet, so my audio input is transcribed and sent to the AIs as text. That's why they don't pick up on my accent/stuttering.

 

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