Can machines think efficiently?

Adam Winchell
10/30/2025
cs.LGcs.AIcs.CY

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Abstract

The Turing Test is no longer adequate for distinguishing human and machine intelligence. With advanced artificial intelligence systems already passing the original Turing Test and contributing to serious ethical and environmental concerns, we urgently need to update the test. This work expands upon the original imitation game by accounting for an additional factor: the energy spent answering the questions. By adding the constraint of energy, the new test forces us to evaluate intelligence through the lens of efficiency, connecting the abstract problem of thinking to the concrete reality of finite resources. Further, this proposed new test ensures the evaluation of intelligence has a measurable, practical finish line that the original test lacks. This additional constraint compels society to weigh the time savings of using artificial intelligence against its total resource cost.

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@article{winchell2025machines,
  title  = {Can machines think efficiently?},
  author = {Adam Winchell},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2510.26954},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26954v2}
}

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