Meanings
nounTuring test (plural Turing tests)
plural Turing tests
- artificial intelligenceA test of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence, as measured by whether a human judge can reliably distinguish the computer from another human being by conversing with both entities in written natural language over a terminal.
The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay calm — and develop a new test.
2023 January 20, Cade Metz, “The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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Origin
Named after English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912–1954). Turing himself used the term imitation game.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 圖靈測試 /图灵测试
- 圖靈測試 /图灵测试 (túlíng cèshì)test of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
German Turing-Test
- Turing-Testtest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Icelandic próf Turings
- próf Turingstest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Malay ujian Turing
- ujian Turingtest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Polish test Turinga
- test Turingatest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Portuguese teste de Turing
- teste de Turingtest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Swedish Turingtest
- Turingtesttest of a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence
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