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Since its conception by the British computer scientist Alan Turing, the so-called Turing Test has served as an unofficial benchmark for artificial intelligence. The test is conceptually simple.

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What is the Turing Test? The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing, is a way to determine if a machine can exhibit human-like intelligence. In this test, a human interrogator chats via text with two ...