Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0250 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Turing Test
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The idea
The Turing test: if a machine's conversation is indistinguishable from a person's, Turing proposed, the question "can machines think?" is answered—or retired.
In practice
An interrogator types with two hidden respondents, one human, one machine, and cannot reliably tell which is which.
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