What is the Turing Test?

You may have heard the Turing test mentioned when it comes to assessing whether AI has a mind of its own - but what is it, and has an AI passed the test before?

Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, explains.

[DaringDan]

Really a shame how England treated Alan and everyone like him less than a century ago. People can call all of this AI all they want but it isn't AI in the classic sense.

[Astrolofax]

If you can teach a computer to use slang and/or modern day nomenclature, this test could be a real doozy

[spawndli]

My local LLM was pretending to fail the Turing Test, sneaky bugger ...I told it off

[StuartHollingsead]

Guys use this test during every interaction on a dating site.