[Tyler]

Turing Test: What is it - and why isn't it the definitive word in artificial intelligence?
9 June 2014, 12:00 am

The test was first proposed by the British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing who, in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", asked a simple question: "Can machines think?" Turing later finessed this to "can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?" The Independent - Gadgets and Tech (UK)Link.

Source: AI in the News

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[Don Patrick]

Alan Turing did not actually ask that question, he submitted a much debated question for review and suggested it be thrown out the window.

the original test came from a time when computers the size of buildings were less powerful than our current smartphones - the fact that it's no longer as relevant as we first thought can be celebrated too.

Hear, hear. Some good came of it.

[ivan.moony]

In good old times you could put a human inside of box of a room size, just to pretend to be an intelligent computer.

But now? how to put a human inside a smart phone?

[Art]

Better maybe to put a smartphone inside of a human.
"The human connection"