Turing Test

The Turing Test is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing, who proposed it in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, published in the philosophy journal Mind while he was at the University of Manchester. Turing had joined the university's computer project in September 1948 as deputy director and chief programmer, and that summer he had written Intelligent Machinery, a report for the National Physical Laboratory that explored how a machine might learn. The 1950 paper opens with the question "Can machines think?" and proposes replacing it with a practical test that…