Alan Turing

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A Turing machine is an abstract mathematical model of computation: a head reading and writing symbols on an unbounded tape according to a finite rule table. It defines what is computable.

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What is the Turing test, and what would passing it show?

Alan Turing's 1950 test asks whether a machine can converse so humanly that a judge cannot reliably tell it from a person. Whether passing shows real intelligence is disputed.

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