Turing test

The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence", it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. In order to keep the test setting simple and universal (to explicitly test the linguistic capability of some machine), the conversation is usually limited to a text-only channel such as a teletype machine as Turing suggested or, more recently, IRC.

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the Turing test, by G. Oppy and D. Dowe.
• The Turing Test Page lists recent articles, links, and other info on the test.
• Turing Test: 50 Years Later reviews a half-century of work on the Turing Test, from the vantage point of 2000.
• Bet between Kapor and Kurzweil, including detailed justifications of their respective positions.
• Why The Turing Test is AI's Biggest Blind Alley by Blay Witby
• A humorous look at proving the non-intelligence of a Twinkie
• TuringHub.com Take the Turing Test, live, online
• Jabberwacky.com An AI chatterbot that learns from and imitates humans
• New York Times essays on machine intelligence part 1 and part 2