Basically the Turing test is to test whether a computer is able to think like a human. It was designed to be a rudimentary way of determining whether or not a computer counts as "intelligent". The test, as Turing designed it, is carried out as a sort of imitation game. On one side of a computer screen sits a human judge, whose job is to chat to some mysterious interlocutors on the other side. Most of those interlocutors will be humans; one will be a chatbot, created for the sole purpose of tricking the judge into thinking that it is the real human.
In Turing's test, if the human being conducting the test is unable to consistently determine whether an answer has been given by a computer or by another human being, then the computer is considered to have "passed" the test.
In June 8, 2006, a Russian-designed program called Eugene, passed the Turing test for the first time by letting the judge believed that it was a 13-year-old boy. And it was considered the cornerstone for Artificial Intelligence.
I think this test is really an interesting one that not only relates to computer science but also relates to thinking. Alan Turing proposed that if a computer can act, react and interact with an individual, it should be considered to be conscious. This also changes how people look at the world. It is impossible for us to think of what we will be facing in the next ten years.
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Nice article and interesting test. Is it possible that a computer is able to think like a human and way smarter than human, but it pretends that it can't think like human during the Turing's test. Wow, that will be so terrifying.
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