{"id":9323,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/turing_test\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:34","slug":"turing_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/turing_test\/","title":{"rendered":"Turing test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal for a test of a machine&#8217;s capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper &#8220;Computing machinery and intelligence&#8221;, it proceeds as follows. &nbsp;A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine, and both hidden by a curtain or screen. &nbsp;If the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. &nbsp;Put another way &#8220;We place something behind a curtain and it speaks with us. If we tell the difference between it and a human being then it will be AI&#8221; (Dimiter Dobrev, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">PC Magazine<\/span>, Bulgaria, November 2000). &nbsp;It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. &nbsp;In order to keep the test setting simple and universal (to explicitly test the linguistic capability of some machine), the conversation is usually limited to a text-only channel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"artificial_intelligence_-ai-\">Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a>, <a href=\"computational_models\">Computational models<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal for a test of a machine&#8217;s capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper &#8220;Computing machinery and intelligence&#8221;, it proceeds as follows. &nbsp;A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine, and both hidden by a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/turing_test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turing test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}