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Turing test

Test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of 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 tell them apart. The results would not depend on the machine's ability to answer questions correctly, only on how closely its answers resembled those of a human. Since the Turing test is a test of indistinguishability in performance capacity, the original (verbal) version generalizes naturally to all of human performance capacity, including nonverbal (robotic).

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Named after: Alan Turing
Facet of: artificial general intelligence
philosophy of mind
Discovered by: Alan Turing
Used by: Voight-Kampff machine
computational theory of mind
Chinese room

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