Since its conception by the British computer scientist Alan Turing, the so-called Turing Test has served as an unofficial benchmark for artificial intelligence. The test is conceptually simple.

While the fundamental premise remains unchanged, the dramatic advancement of large language models has renewed scientific ...

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First proposed in 1950, the "Turing Test"—named after renowned British computer scientist Alan Turing—is a hypothetical framework to test the intelligence of an AI system. In this "imitation game," as ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

Yesterday, at I/O 2018, Google showed off a new digital assistant capability that's meant to improve your life by making simple boring phone calls on your behalf. The new Google Duplex feature is ...

We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting like humans, we will increasingly be faced with the question of whether there’s really anything ...