Turing test
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: 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 …—
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The Turing test was aced a while back, yes, but unlike rote intelligence, these things are not so easily pinned down.
—Will Knight, Wired News, 27 Oct. 2025
Author Brian Christian explored this irony in his 2011 book The Most Human Human, which chronicled his experience competing against chatbots in Turing tests.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
But the goal for conversational AI as a product and for research that will power that product is effectively passing the Turing test for a conversation with an AI agent.
—Tharin Pillay, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
For decades, passing what’s now called the Turing test was considered a nearly impossible challenge and a strong indicator of AGI.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
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Will Knight, Wired News, 27 Oct. 2025
Author Brian Christian explored this irony in his 2011 book The Most Human Human, which chronicled his experience competing against chatbots in Turing tests.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
But the goal for conversational AI as a product and for research that will power that product is effectively passing the Turing test for a conversation with an AI agent.
—Tharin Pillay, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
For decades, passing what’s now called the Turing test was considered a nearly impossible challenge and a strong indicator of AGI.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Turing test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Turing%20test. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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