CAN MACHINES THINK ? In 1950 Alan turing, considered by some the father of modern computing, published a paper in which he proposed that, "If during text-based conversations, a machine is indistinguishable from a human, then it could be said to be thinking and therefore can be attributed with intelligence. He predicted that a computer will pass a 'TURING TEST' by the end of the century. The Turing test is a proposal (introduced by Alan turing) for a test of the machine's ability to demonstrate its intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test and hence posses artificial intelligence (AI). That hasn't happened yet but the question continues to provoke and inspire. AI must be just around the corner or it might be centuries away.
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