How does the Turing test work, and why is it still debatable whether it has been passed or not?
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There have been, and likely always will be, arguments over whether AI systems “actually think”. The Turing test is a sneak attack on the vulnerable flanks of that question. If an AI system can perform some activity (classically, engaging in conversation) sufficiently well that it is indistinguishable from a human performing the activity, it works, and it doesn’t matter if what it does is or is not “actual thinking”.
I believe it was Turing taking the piss, but it may have been simply a way clearly to express one of AI’s goals.
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