In 1950 Alan Turing proposed what has become known as the Turing test. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Alan Turing first devised the imitation game known as the Turing Test in 1950. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The life story of the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing is among those being used to tackle homophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on gay history cut homophobic bullying in north London school] Reference
Alan Turing proposed in 1950 what has become known as the Turing Test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed] Reference
Bletchley Park, home to UK code-breakers such as Alan Turing is being preserved as a museum, but has been facing a funding crises of late. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Its called the Turing Train Terminal, and it looks extremely cool. From Wordnik.com. [February 2005] Reference
This test is called Turing's test, and such a machine, a Turing machine. From Wordnik.com. [Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room: An Exchange] Reference
Turing proposed a class of devices that came to be known as Turing machines. From Wordnik.com. [Turing Machines] Reference
Alan Turing proposed a theoretical model of computation called a Turing machine. From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Blogs] Reference
By the way, calling a Turing machine "useful" in any sense is rather questionable. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
These devices lead to a formal notion of computation that we will call Turing-computability. From Wordnik.com. [Turing Machines] Reference
This is what people have later called the Turing test, but he made clear that this was not a test of whether the machine was thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Loebner prize « Alex McLean] Reference
Michie recalls Turing experimenting with heuristics that later became common in chess programming (in particular minimax and best-first). From Wordnik.com. [The Modern History of Computing] Reference
The good news is that he invented something (called a Turing machine) that ended up evolving into the machine I'm typing this on right now. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Turing and Bletchley Park] Reference
This is why I like to tie in Turing machines. From Wordnik.com. [A True or False Prophet?] Reference
Anyone can search for my "Turing" posts and see this. From Wordnik.com. [Behe: ID rescues Common Descent] Reference
He excused himself for not having called earlier, by explaining that "Turing" had sent him. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The host of the last edition of the Carnival of Tomorrow, Micah Glasser wrote that "Google Resumes Construction of 'Turing's Cathedral.'". From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: The Lucky 13th Edition of The Carnival of Tomorrow] Reference
And perhaps we no longer share that assumption with "Turing" and "Godel." determinedly. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
This test has come to be called the Turing Test. From Wordnik.com. [The Computational Theory of Mind] Reference
By the way, calling a Turing machine. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Today it is known as the Turing Test. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
They can be programmed even to meet the Turing test. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
Turing machines -- or as we know them better, computers. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
We're beyond Turing now, and into much stranger territory. From Wordnik.com. [Going Gunning With My Imaginary Friends] Reference
In a sense, the AI inside a game faces a constant Turing Test. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Tweaks Amp Up Halo 3's Killer AI] Reference
Alas, critics agree that no machine has passed the Turing Test. From Wordnik.com. [Going Gunning With My Imaginary Friends] Reference
That's why many philosophers say machines will never pass the Turing Test. From Wordnik.com. [Going Gunning With My Imaginary Friends] Reference
Some people thought of it as math, and proved things about Turing Machines. From Wordnik.com. [Some Heroes] Reference
If this sounds reminiscent of the discussion of the Turing machine, it should. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
I don't know; maybe someday there'll be programs that can pass the Turing test. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
And then when I was researching the Turing book, I started to get really interested in it. From Wordnik.com. [David Leavitt Does the Math] Reference
It was a theoretical exercise, an attempt to create a more elegant alternative to the Turing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
Thus, Brown's Turing statement should be seen as a small but significant win for e-democracy. From Wordnik.com. [E-Democracy Win: Britain Apologizes to Alan Turing] Reference
Turing "hob knobed" with the likes of Churchill and Roosevelt and had a top secert clearance. From Wordnik.com. [Rain Man's Curse] Reference
The program was in effect a form of a Turing test, named for the computer scientist Alan Turing. From Wordnik.com. [MIT Professor's Work Led Him] Reference
He hadn't even had a name until this year, when Erythrina had given him that asbestos Alan Turing T-shirt. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
KURZWEIL: By 2029 a machine will be able to pass a Turing test, meaning it is indistinguishable from human intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference
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