The Turing test was developed in 1950 by Alan Turing as a way of determining the ability of machines to exhibit behaviours that are indistinguishable from or equivalent to the intelligence of humans.

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Matthew Ledvina
Artificial Intelligence:
The Turing Test

2. The Turing test was developed in 1950 by
Alan Turing as a way of determining the ability
of machines to exhibit behaviours that are
indistinguishable from or equivalent to the
intelligence of humans.

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HUMAN EVALUATION
The basis of the Turing Test involves
a human evaluator listening to con-
versations between another human
and a machine, designed to respond
as a human would. The evaluator is
aware that one party is a machine
but not which one. The machine is
deemed to have passed the test if
the evaluator cannot reliably deter-
mine which party is which.
TEXT-ONLY COMMUNICATION
To ensure fairness in testing, the
conversation between the two par-
ties takes place in a text-only for-
THE TURING TEST DOES NOT REQUIRE THE MACHINE TO ANSWER
QUESTIONS POSED CORRECTLY. THE RESULTS ARE BASED ON HOW
CLOSELY THE ANSWERS ARE TO THOSE A HUMAN WOULD NATURALLY
RESPOND WITH, NOT THEIR ACCURACY.
mat. This means the machine’s
intelligence of responses can be
evaluated without depending on its
ability to render those words as hu-
man-like speech.
NO CORRECT ANSWERS
The Turing Test does not require the
machine to answer questions posed
correctly. The results are based
on how closely the answers are to
those a human would naturally re-
spond with, not their accuracy.
Artificial intelligence has progressed
hugely since the Turing test was de-
vised in 1950.

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Noah Harari’s
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which explores the
implications of the
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