Is the Turing Test Dead?

When Alan Turing first proposed an approach to distinguish the “minds” of machines from those of human beings in 1950, the idea that a machine could ever achieve human-level intelligence was almost laughable.

In the Turing test—which Turing himself originally called the “imitation game“—human participants conduct a conversation with unknown users to determine if they’re talking to a human or a computer. In 2014, a chatbot masquerading as a Ukrainian teenager named Eugene Goostman seemed to put …

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