Robots are as intelligent as HUMANS - as AI passes the 'Turing test'

GPT , which powers ChatGPT, and LLaMa , which is behind Meta AI on WhatsApp and Facebook, have passed the famous Turing test.

GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73 per cent of the time more often than the real human participant was chosen.

Researchers recruited 126 undergraduate students from University of California San Diego and 158 people from online data pool Prolific .

Participants had five-minute online conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of the AIs.

They didn't know which was which and they had to judge which was human.

Alan Turing was a British mathematician best known for his work cracking the enigma code.

During WWII , he was pivotal in cracking the Enigma codes used by the German military to encrypt their messages.

His work gave Allied leaders vital information about the movement and intentions of Hitler ’s forces.

But he was disgraced in 1952 when he was convicted for homosexual activity, which was illegal at the time and would not be decriminalised until 1967 .

In 1954 , aged 41 , he died of cyanide poisoning, although his mother and others maintained that his death was accidental.