A
test devised by Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) in the 1950s intended to determine machine intelligence.
The setup of the
test is this:
The interrogator, a human, is in a room separate from the machine being tested and another human. The interrogator questions both the machine and the human
via a keyboard, and tries to discern which is the machine and which is human.
A computer that can pass the Turing
test (that is, be indistinguishable from the human), is considered to have intelligence.
"I passed the Turing
test, which shouldn'
t be that difficult anymore, because Smarterchild is almost there, and
humans are getting dumber by the second..."