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The Turing Test

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The Turing test asks whether a machine, answering written questions, can be reliably told apart from a person by an interrogator who cannot see either one.

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Two chat windows, five minutes, any questions you like — which one is the machine?

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Turing's own prediction was modest: fooling an average questioner three times in ten, after five minutes, by the year 2000.