Turing test
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Turing test is a test to see if a computer can interact with a person. The human should not be able to realize it is interacting with a computer.
Alan Turing thought that if a human could not tell the difference between another human and the computer, then the computer had shown intelligent behavior.[1]
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Test setup
A person has a telegraph, and is connected to two communication partners. One of the two correspondents is a machine. The person can ask anything with the telegraph. If the person cannot tell which of the two is the machine more than 50% of the time, then the machine is said to be intelligent.
Later on, people narrowed down the test. A human is unlikely to know everything. Therefore, both the human and the machine would be specialists in some field of knowledge (and so would the person asking).
Media
The comic strip Dilbert makes several mentions to the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss) failing the Turing test.
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