Technologies

Turing Test

Dr Dipankar Swargiary, Jhon Doe

Professor | Oxford University

Published on Jul 14, 2026

ISSN: 123456

Turing Test

Turing test

 

The phrase “The Turing Test” is most properly used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think. According to Turing, the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve discussion (442). However, if we consider the more precise—and somehow related—question whether a digital computer can do well in a certain kind of game that Turing describes (“The Imitation Game”), then—at least in Turing’s eyes—we do have a question that admits of precise discussion. Moreover, as we shall see, Turing himself thought that it would not be too long before we did have digital computers that could “do well” in the Imitation Game.

Author Information

  • Dr Dipankar Swargiary

    Professor, Oxford University

    dipankar.ujudebug@gmail.com

    India, Assam, Udalguri, 123456

Co-authors

  • Jhon Doe

    Professor, Standford University