The Turing test is a central, long term goal for AI research – will we ever be able to build a … See more

In 1950 Alan Turing was the Deputy Director of the computing laboratory at the University of Manchester. The paper which defined what would come to be known as the Turing t… See more

A large portion of Turing’s original paper deals with addressing counter arguments concerning how the test he proposes may not be valid. In the introduction to that section he … See more

Many people have proposed their own version of the Turing test to help contend with the perceived or possible shortcomings of the test as proposed by Alan Turing. Most of the … See more

Since the Turing test was proposed many attempts have been made to build software capable of passing it (or a more constrained version). A limited form of the test - temp… See more