How to Use Turing test in a Sentence

Turing test

noun
  • In the decade since, many more programs have purported to pass the Turing test.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Chatbots were laughably bad just a few years ago; now some can pass the Turing test.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • 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, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Scrolling through product reviews already feels like the world’s most annoying Turing test.
    Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence.
    WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The groundbreaking promise of ‘cellular housekeeping’ New AI may pass the famed Turing test.
    Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • To some extent, the Mondrian experiment was a crude Turing test of machine intelligence.
    Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
  • 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, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Large language models will pass the Turing test—a Rubicon for machines’ ability to imitate human intelligence.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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, 2 Mar. 2023

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