Turing test

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The Turing test is a benchmark in artificial intelligence that evaluates a machine's ability to exhibit human-like intelligence by determining whether its responses are indistinguishable from those of a human in conversation.


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instanceOf benchmark in artificial intelligence
imitation game
philosophical thought experiment
test of machine intelligence
approach black-box behavioral assessment
coreConcept behavioral definition of intelligence
imitation of human conversational behavior
creator Alan Turing
criticizedFor anthropocentric definition of intelligence
focus on deception rather than understanding
insufficient as a comprehensive test of intelligence
narrow focus on linguistic behavior
describedIn Computing Machinery and Intelligence
doesNotRequire inspection of internal mechanisms
evaluationMethod natural language conversation
text-based dialogue
field artificial intelligence
cognitive science
philosophy of artificial intelligence
philosophy of mind
hasVariant Loebner Prize Turing test
Reverse Turing test
Total Turing test
Visual Turing test
historicalSignificance one of the earliest formal proposals for testing machine intelligence
inception 1950
influenced AI evaluation methodologies
chatbot research
development of conversational agents
inspired Loebner Prize
interactionMedium computer terminal
text-only communication
involves human interlocutor
human judge
machine interlocutor
keyCriterion indistinguishability from human responses
language English (original formulation)
namedAfter Alan Turing
primaryGoal evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit human-like intelligence
proposedQuestion Can machines think?
publicationYear 1950
publishedIn Mind (journal)
relatedConcept CAPTCHA
Chinese room argument
imitation game
machine consciousness
strong AI
weak AI
successCondition judge cannot reliably distinguish machine from human
machine is misidentified as human sufficiently often

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Turing test ("Total Turing test")
Turing test ("Reverse Turing test")
hasVariant
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
introducedConcept
Alan Turing
knownFor
Ex Machina
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