Turing test

noun

: a test to establish the existence of artificial intelligence in which questions from an interrogator are answered by an unseen person and computer with the understanding that if the interrogator is unable to correctly identify which responder is human the computer has demonstrated thinking ability comparable to a human's

… for decades, the standard test for whether technology was approaching intelligence was the Turing test …

—Navneet Alang

Examples of Turing test in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That approach can be hard to square with a movie whose characters all seem a few AI tokens short of passing the Turing test. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026

Duplicity is a very important theme, going back to the Turing test. — Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026

The Winograd schema, pioneered by Hector Levesque in 2012, takes the concept of the original Turing test, and, so to speak, gives it wings. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

Not all of the content was convincing, but a lot of it came close enough—and, in our increasingly audiovisual digital world, that may turn out to represent a more significant Rubicon than the Turing test. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

after Alan M. turing, who proposed the test

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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