Turing test
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: a test to establish the existence of artificial intelligence in which questions from an interrogator are answered by an unseen person and computer with the understanding that if the interrogator is unable to correctly identify which responder is human the computer has demonstrated thinking ability comparable to a human's
The Turing test pits an interrogator against another human and a computer. Able to communicate with each via keyboard and printer only, the interrogator tries to determine which is which. If he can, the computer is not considered intelligent.—
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Well keep seeing more complex Turing tests passed by these simulators, until….?
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Weizenbaum intended his computer program to demonstrate the inability of machines to simulate human speech convincingly—that is, to pass the Turing test.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The Gardner test, with apologies to the Turing test, is inspired by and builds on the pioneering work in AI on general game playing (GGP), a field largely shaped by Stanford University professor Michael Genesereth.
—Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
What To Know Researchers from the University of California ran a variation of the classic Turing test.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
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John Werner, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Weizenbaum intended his computer program to demonstrate the inability of machines to simulate human speech convincingly—that is, to pass the Turing test.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The Gardner test, with apologies to the Turing test, is inspired by and builds on the pioneering work in AI on general game playing (GGP), a field largely shaped by Stanford University professor Michael Genesereth.
—Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
What To Know Researchers from the University of California ran a variation of the classic Turing test.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
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