The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950 and is still used as a jumping off point to discuss artificial intelligence. The Turing Test suggests that if a human being can carry on a dialogue mediated by a computer and cannot determine whether the answers are generated by the computer or by a human being, that computer can be said to have passed the test. Chapter Three of Howard Rheingold's Tools for Thought looks more closely at Turing and his work.
A test developed by Alan Turing and used to determine whether a computer could be called intelligent.
a test which determines if the party on the other end of a remote communication is a human or a computer program
A test to determine if an artificially intelligence machine is successful. It is successful if its answers to questions are indistinguishable from the answers a human would give.
You are sitting at a terminal linked to another terminal which you can't see. If, by interacting with that other terminal, you can't tell whether it is operated by a person or a machine, then the machine has passed the Turing Test.
Proposed by Alan Turing, the test suggests that an artefact can be considered intelligent if its behaviour cannot be distinguished by humans from other humans in controlled circumstances. See also: Artificial intelligence.
A hypothetical test for computer intelligence, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, involving a computer program generating a conversation which could not be distinguished from that of a real human.
The Turing Test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Professor Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence," it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human.