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# Turing Test

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The Turing Test is a test for defining whether a program qualifies to be called 'intelligent?'. The Turing test was devised by Alan Turing in the paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Mind, October 1950). It comes from a [party game]? where guests try to guess the gender? of a person in another room by writing a series of questions on notes and reading the answers sent back.

The test for intelligence changes the question into whether the party answering the questions is a computer or a human?. The test uses a phenomenological definition of "intelligence", by not specifying any details about what needs to be done to make a computer able to pass the test.

References

- The "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" paper online
  - http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/04/99/
  - http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html

Also see: Artificial Intelligence

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