What is the "Turing Test?" The Turing Test is a concept introduced by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in his seminal 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The ...

For decades, the Turing Test—named after its creator, computing legend Alan Turing—was a simple test designed to measure the ability of a program to mimic a human. In the age of large language models ...

A new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego concluded that GPT‑4.5, OpenAI’s latest large language model, and Meta’s Llama‑3.1‑405B succeeded in a three-party Turing Test ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing published a paper about whether computers could think. He proposed a thought experiment, a version of a parlor game in which notes are passed back and forth ...

ChatGPT can now easily pass any Turing test, a measure of successful A.I. proposed by a founder of computer science, Alan Turing. But contemporary Turing tests leave out the most interesting part of ...

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

When it comes to judging which large language models are the “best,” most evaluations tend to look at whether or not a machine can retrieve accurate information, perform logical reasoning, or show ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...

A video game may have laid the groundwork for true artificial intelligence (A.I.). What if “bots” (computer-controlled enemies in first-person shooters) could disguise themselves as human? Would that ...

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The "acid test" of machine intelligence, as defined by the English scientist Alan Turing. Turing did not use the words "artificial intelligence;" however, in the 1940s, he said "I shall consider ...