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The imitation-game test of machine intelligence

Alan Turing's 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence proposed replacing the vague question of whether machines can think with a concrete procedure he called the imitation game: a human judge holds a text-only conversation with two unseen participants, one a person and one a machine, and tries to decide which is which, so that a machine able to pass reliably for a human is credited with intelligent behavior. Turing framed the test behaviorally, judging a machine by what it can do in conversation rather than by how its internals work, and he predicted that machines would eventually play the game well enough to fool an average interrogator. A half-century survey by Saygin, Cicekli, and Akman (2000) traces how the proposal became a central reference point and a recurring source of debate across artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. The test is distinctive as an operational, purely behavioral criterion for machine intelligence: it fixes attention on observable conversational performance and deliberately sets aside claims about inner states, consciousness, or the mechanism producing the answers.[1][2][3]

Unit
A behavioral pass or fail criterion applied to a machine in conversational interrogation
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Measured by
Assessed by whether a human interrogator, in text-only conversation, can reliably distinguish the machine from a human participant

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References

  1. Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, LIX(236), 433–460. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433
  2. Saygin, A. P., Cicekli, I., & Akman, V. (2000). Turing Test: 50 years later. Minds and Machines, 10(4), 463–518. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011288000451
  3. French, R. M. (2000). The Turing Test: The first 50 years. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(3), 115–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01453-4

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