Turing test
nounEtymology Named after English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912–1954). Turing himself used the term imitation game.
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A test of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence, as measured by whether a human judge can reliably distinguish the computer from another human being by conversing with both entities in written natural language over a terminal.
Artificial intelligence
- The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay calm — and develop a new test.2023 January 20, Cade Metz, “The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- CAPTCHA, reverse Turing test