Turing Test

The Turing Test, proposed by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," is a method to evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. In this test, a human evaluator engages in a text-based conversation with both a human and a machine, without knowing which is which; if the evaluator cannot reliably distinguish the machine from the human based on the responses, the machine is said to have passed the test, suggesting it possesses artificial intelligence. The Turing Test remains a foundational benchmark in AI development, though it has evolved to include debates about its relevance given modern AI capabilities like natural language processing and multimodal systems.