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Turing Test

Era: Early Theory · 1930s–1950s

In "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," Turing replaced the ambiguous question "Can machines think?" with the imitation game, originally a three-role game (a man, a woman, and an interrogator) where Turing proposed substituting a machine for one of the players. It is a behavioral criterion, not proof that a machine is conscious.

Alan Turing

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  1. Computing Machinery and Intelligence

    Mind · Source type: paper

    Turing’s 1950 paper introduces the imitation game.

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