The Turing Test
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CORE DEFINITION
The Turing test was designed by Alan Turing to assess a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human by imitating interactive dialogue. In the modern version, a human evaluator judges a text transcript of a natural-language conversation between a human and a machine. The evaluator tries to identify the machine, and the machine passes if the evaluator cannot reliably distinguish it from a human.
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The Turing test was designed by Alan Turing to assess a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human by imitating interactive dialogue. In the modern version, a human evaluator judges a text transcript of a natural-language conversation between a human and a machine. The evaluator tries to identify the machine, and the machine passes if the evaluator cannot reliably distinguish it from a human.
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The Turing test (imitation game) was proposed by Turing: if a person cannot distinguish a machine from a human in a pure text conversation, then the machine is considered to 'think' in terms of behavior. It converts 'intelligence' into an operational external criterion rather than internal consciousness.
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