How to Use Turing test in a Sentence

Turing test

noun
  • Chatbots were laughably bad just a few years ago; now some can pass the Turing test.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 2023-05-06
  • In the decade since, many more programs have purported to pass the Turing test.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2023-03-16
  • Rather than hope for one be-all, end-all online Turing test, Mitchell says this push-and-pull is just going to be a fact of life.
    — Kate Lindsay, The Verge, 2023-02-24
  • In the computer science world, this means that many AI have already passed the Turing test.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 2025-01-24
  • Lerer joked that in modern-day online Diplomacy, even human players wouldn’t pass the Turing test.
    — WIRED, 2023-09-26
  • The next entry after this is a reference to the work of Alan Turing, who introduced the Turing test at mid-century.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 2024-10-18
  • The groundbreaking promise of ‘cellular housekeeping’ New AI may pass the famed Turing test.
    — Magazine, 2023-03-02
  • To some extent, the Mondrian experiment was a crude Turing test of machine intelligence.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 2023-06-01
  • In this sense, the computer-science community is evaluating recurrent neural networks via a kind of Turing test.
    — Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 2016-01-26
  • Large language models will pass the Turing test—a Rubicon for machines’ ability to imitate human intelligence.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 2023-01-03
  • Psychiatrists given transcripts of therapy sessions often couldn’t tell the difference between Parry and humans; in this narrow sense, the chatbot passed the Turing test.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2023-02-27
  • Think of the Turing test: If an observer can’t tell whether a response is human-generated or machine-generated, then the machine can be said to exhibit intelligence.
    — David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 2025-02-21
  • This, in addition to the central fact that the protocol of the Turing test is based on imitation, gives a structural advantage to simulation and mimicry (and so to the LLM).
    — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 2024-05-22
  • In an age where computers seem to be galloping ever closer to passing the Turing test, the scientists made some very deliberate decisions on MyEleanor’s sophistication.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 2024-06-01
  • The Turing test, also known as the imitation game, was developed in 1950 by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing to assess how machines display intelligent behavior similar to that of a human.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2023-03-02

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