The Turing Test

The 2014 film The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. One of Turing’s lasting contributions is the Turing test, an effort to determine whether or not a machine or computer can think like a human. In the Turing test, human evaluators have written, text-only conversations with fellow humans and machines. If a machine is able to convince a majority of the evaluators that it is actually a human being, then it is said to have passed the test by imitating humanlike intelligence.