Turing test

British  

noun

1. a proposed test of a computer's ability to think, requiring that the covert substitution of the computer for one of the participants in a keyboard and screen dialogue should be undetectable by the remaining human participant

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Turing test Cultural  

1. A test proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing, and often taken as a test of whether a computer has humanlike intelligence. If a panel of human beings conversing with an unknown entity (via keyboard, for example) believes that that entity is human, and if the entity is actually a computer, then the computer is said to have passed the Turing test.

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Turing test

Enter the captcha, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as the Turing test.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

As Spalding University's Lynnell Edwards put it recently: "When did poetry become the new Turing test?"

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023

Soon after the War, Turing proposed the imitation game - later dubbed the "Turing test" - which seeks to identify whether a machine can behave in a way indistinguishable from a human.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023

“People were not building systems for fluent dialogue. That was just too hard,” said Stuart Shieber, a Harvard computer scientist who specializes in computational linguistics, including the Turing test.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

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