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The Turing Test was proposed by computer pioneer Alan M. Turing (1912 – 1954) to determine whether a computer program is intelligent. This modern interpretation of the so-called imitation game is based on a setup where a person, a computer, and an interrogator are in three separate rooms and connected via computer terminals. The task of the interrogator is to figure out by ...

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