imitation game

noun

Synonym of Turing test.

Meanings

nounimitation game (plural imitation games)

plural imitation games · alternative Imitation Game

  1. Synonym of Turing test.

    Scrutinizers of Turing's imitation game include those who view that a machine can and will eventually succeed in passing his question–answer test […]

    2016, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Turing's Imitation Game, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
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    Is it true that by modifying this computer to have an adequate storage, suitably increasing its speed of action, and providing it with an appropriate programme, C can be made to play satisfactorily the part of A in the imitation game, the part of B being taken by a man?

    1950 October, Alan M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, in Mind, volume LIX, →DOI, pages 433–460

    In this classic article Turing presented his well known imitation game and predicted that about the year 2000 “an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning” in the imitation game.

    2003, “Preface”, in James H. Moor, editor, The Turing test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page ix

    Synonyms: Turing test

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of Turing test.

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