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

The Turing test pits an interrogator against another human and a computer. Able to communicate with each via keyboard and printer only, the interrogator tries to determine which is which. If he can, the computer is not considered intelligent.

—Phil Lopiccola

Examples of Turing test in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Think of the Turing test: If an observer can’t tell whether a response is human-generated or machine-generated, then the machine can be said to exhibit intelligence. —David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025

In the computer science world, this means that many AI have already passed the Turing test. —Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025

Thanks to dramatic recent advances in large language models, the Turing test has become a solved problem in the 2020s. —Rob Toews, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

In this sense, the computer-science community is evaluating recurrent neural networks via a kind of Turing test. —Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016

Word History

Etymology

Alan Turing (1912–1954), British mathematician who proposed the test

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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