💡 Idea or paradigm

Turing test and the idea of machine intelligence

Test de Turing y la idea de la inteligencia artificial

Date
1950 · confidence high
Place
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Credited to
Alan Turing (Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950); the term AI coined at Dartmouth (McCarthy, 1956)
People
👤 Alan Turing1912–1954
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What was discovered

Proposal that a machine is intelligent if its conversation is indistinguishable from a human's, together with the prediction of machines that learn. It defined the research programme of AI.

What it led to

  • The Dartmouth Conference (1956) and AI as a discipline
  • Chatbots, from ELIZA (1966) to ChatGPT
  • Philosophical debates over consciousness and machines
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