The following story details an extraordinary scientific achievement by King’s College London and King’s College Hospital. Only we are presenting two versions—one written by a person and one generated by AI. The current ability of generative AI to replicate human behavior may surprise you.
Proposed by the renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing test was designed to determine a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. The test involves a human evaluator interacting with a machine and a human through a text-based interface, attempting to determine which one is the machine.
To conduct our own Turing test, we provided a real writer and ChatGPT with the same prompt: “Synthesize these two articles1 into a 750-word article for a magazine issue focused on the impact of exponential technologies on healthcare, aimed at an audience of CTOs, CIOs, CEOs and other business and technology leaders. Include a clever headline, a quote from Dr. Nilesh Pareek pulled from one of the articles, and three bullet points articulating the outcomes of the technology.”
