Last year, DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman proposed a new type of Turing Test (a way of testing whether an AI has equalled or surpassed human cognitive abilities): can an intelligent system make $1m on its own?
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Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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