What is the "Turing Test?" The Turing Test is a concept introduced by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in his seminal 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The ...

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...

For decades, the Turing Test—named after its creator, computing legend Alan Turing—was a simple test designed to measure the ability of a program to mimic a human. In the age of large language models ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing published a paper about whether computers could think. He proposed a thought experiment, a version of a parlor game in which notes are passed back and forth ...

When is an artificial cell alive? A Turing test–like method may provide the answer. You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF The ...

A video game may have laid the groundwork for true artificial intelligence (A.I.). What if “bots” (computer-controlled enemies in first-person shooters) could disguise themselves as human? Would that ...

The "acid test" of machine intelligence, as defined by the English scientist Alan Turing. Turing did not use the words "artificial intelligence;" however, in the 1940s, he said "I shall consider ...