Everything about Turing test
Test of a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence
The Turing test was designed by Alan Turing to assess a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human by imitating interactive dialogue. In the modern version, a human evaluator judges a text transcript of a natural-language conversation between a human and a machine. The evaluator tries to identify the machine, and the machine passes if the evaluator cannot reliably tell them apart. The results would not depend on the machine's ability to answer questions correctly, only on how closely its answers resembled those of a human. Since the Turing test is a test of indistinguishability in performance capacity, the original (verbal) version generalises naturally to all of human performance capacity, including nonverbal (robotic). Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Turing testA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humansInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The assumption of agency theoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Turing Test: 50 Years LaterCited 272 times
- Go sideways: Computing Machinery and IntelligenceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Artificial stupidityA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Turing Test: 50 Years Later
The Turing Test*
The Turing Triage Test
Beyond the Turing Test
The Truly Total Turing Test*
Beyond the Turing Test
PessimalPrint: a reverse Turing test
Moving beyond the Turing test
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A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans
Putting ChatGPT’s Medical Advice to the (Turing) Test: Survey Study
Large Language Models and the Reverse Turing Test
Virtual Cell Challenge: Toward a Turing test for the virtual cell
Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test
📚 Books worth reading
The assumption of agency theoryKate Forbes-Pitt · 2011
The Most Human HumanBrian Christian · 2011
Turing's LegacyRod Downey · 2014
What Is Essential to Being Human?Margaret Scotford Archer, Andrea M. Maccarini · 2021
Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AIHector J. Levesque · 2017
The Turing TestStuart Shieber · 2004
Turing's Imitation GameKevin Warwick, Huma Shah · 2016
The Turing testJames H. Moor · 2003
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