Reflections on Cope and Kalantzis: How intelligent is generative AI? Towards trans-semiotizing the Turing test
Angel M. Y. Lin, Qinghua Chen · Multimodality & Society · 2024
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has sparked great interest in Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). Discussions have arisen regarding whether Gen AI has passed the Turing Test, a measure of a machine’s ability to mimic human intelligence. There are also concerns about the potential threats posed by advanced AI to humanity. Using the lens of multimodal grammar, Cope and Kalantzis’s work offers a balanced analysis of Gen AI’s capabilities and limitations. This paper builds on their work, examining Gen AI’s strengths and weaknesses, and proposes trans-semiotizing the Turing Test to benchmark Gen AI.