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

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

In the age when the passing of the Turing test was a distant prospect, the question of computing and the mind was one of anthropomorphism—of transmitting human qualities to an object.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

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

I think the traditional method that we all studied in school, the Turing test, is not relevant or useful now.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023

But claims from its creators — and from the news media — that it had passed the Turing test were greatly exaggerated.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023