How Alan Turing and His Test Became AI Legend
The Turing Test is legendary in the field of artificial intelligence. First proposed by the visionary British mathematician Alan Turing in a landmark 1950 paper, the test provides a practical (and pretty fun) way to determine if a computer has achieved human levels of intelligence. Turing called it “the imitation game.” If a computer — through a text-only chat — can convince a human that it’s a real person, then it passes the test. Simple in theory, but nearly impossible in practice. Turing came up with the imitation game in response to colleagues and critics in the late 1940s who insisted that a…
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