The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950

The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950

1. Turing test

2. is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

   • Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses.
     • The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another.
       • The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech.
         • If the evaluator cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.
           • The test results do not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely its answers resemble those a human would give.
             • Computer AI passes Turing test in 'world first'
               • The 65-year-old Turing Test is successfully passed if a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations
                 • On 7 June Eugene convinced 33% of the judges at the Royal Society in London that it was human