Questions tagged [turing-test]

For questions about the Turing Test, a test designed to see whether a third-party person can identify, from a written transcript, who was the AI and who was the human is an human/AI conversation.

The Turing test was designed in 1950 by Alan Turing, to evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit . He introduced the test in his essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which can be read online here.

The test has a human and an AI have a conversation, which is limited to on-screen text, and then a judge will look over the transcript, and try to see if they can tell who was who in the conversation.

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Why is the Turing test so popular?

I know there are different AI tests but I'm wondering why other tests are little-known. Is the Turing test hyped? Are there any scientific reasons to prefer one test to the other? Why is the Turing test so popular?
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How close have we come to passing the Turing Test?

The Turing Test has been the classic test of artificial intelligence for a while now. The concept is deceptively simple - to trick a human into thinking it is another human on the other end of a conversation line, not a computer - but from what I've…
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Nuances of Turing test requirements

My understanding is that there is no singular "The Turing Test Ruleset" and competitions don't all do it the exact same way. Still, I'm wondering about some commonly accepted rules and their nuances. My Googling is not producing any specifics about…
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Is the Turing test still relevant, as of 2019?

Given the Chinese room argument, and given the development in chatbots and machine learning, isn't Turing test superseded by some other way of evaluating AI's inteligence? Would an positive result of a Turing test provide any value, besides telling…
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