Turing Test

Introduction
Alan Turing, (rest in peperonis), was a massively important British computer scientist and codebreaker active around WWII, who was influential in the emergent thinking around sentient computers (artificial intelligence or A.I.). Turing proposed a test to gauge if a machine was intelligent or not: several participants would be placed in separate rooms, all conversing with one another as a group. If the machine could seamlessly fit into the conversation, without the human testers suspecting it, the machine passes. (Turing originally suggested that the machine would convince a human 70% of the time after five minutes of conversation), the machine is said to have passed the test. The test does not check the ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely the answers resemble those a human would give.

Where are we up to now?
Turing predicted that in 100 years from his writing, we would be able to have deep and rich conversations with artificial minds, and that would be when his test would consistently be passed. So far, we're making good progress; 'Eugene Goostman', a Russian developed programme designed to emulate a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy that fooled 33% of human participants, as grammatical errors could be put down to english not being his first language.This trickery has been a source of contention, as people don't really think it was an entirely fair version of the test if it had to have an excuse for faltering language.

Objections
John Searle proposed the Chinese Room thought experiment designed to discredit Turing's test by disputing what counts as thinking in these cases.

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