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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What To Know Researchers from the University of California ran a variation of the classic Turing test.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
This experiment was our own kind of Turing test, which traditionally seeks to answer, however obliquely, the question of whether machines can think.
—Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
For example, the Turing test could be described as a Level 1 test of language processing and the Lovelace 2.0 test as a Level 1 test of narrative creation.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Think of the Turing test: If an observer can’t tell whether a response is human-generated or machine-generated, then the machine can be said to exhibit intelligence.
—David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
This experiment was our own kind of Turing test, which traditionally seeks to answer, however obliquely, the question of whether machines can think.
—Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
For example, the Turing test could be described as a Level 1 test of language processing and the Lovelace 2.0 test as a Level 1 test of narrative creation.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Think of the Turing test: If an observer can’t tell whether a response is human-generated or machine-generated, then the machine can be said to exhibit intelligence.
—David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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