How to Use Turing test in a Sentence

Turing test

noun
  • Chatbots were laughably bad just a few years ago; now some can pass the Turing test.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • In the decade since, many more programs have purported to pass the Turing test.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Turing test for speech remains out of reach for today’s AI systems.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Scrolling through product reviews already feels like the world’s most annoying Turing test.
    — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Rather than hope for one be-all, end-all online Turing test, Mitchell says this push-and-pull is just going to be a fact of life.
    — Kate Lindsay, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Turing test was aced a while back, yes, but unlike rote intelligence, these things are not so easily pinned down.
    — Will Knight, Wired News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the computer science world, this means that many AI have already passed the Turing test.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Lerer joked that in modern-day online Diplomacy, even human players wouldn’t pass the Turing test.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The next entry after this is a reference to the work of Alan Turing, who introduced the Turing test at mid-century.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The groundbreaking promise of ‘cellular housekeeping’ New AI may pass the famed Turing test.
    — Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, since the earliest days of electronic computing and the Turing test, AI has been part of the conceptual discourse.
    — David Rothschild, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • To some extent, the Mondrian experiment was a crude Turing test of machine intelligence.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
  • In this sense, the computer-science community is evaluating recurrent neural networks via a kind of Turing test.
    — Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
  • One day, the quality of these AI programs might, in fact, pass the Turing test with flying colors and become completely seamless and frustration-free.
    — Mantvydas Štareika, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The paper introduced the concept of the Turing test, a method for determining whether a machine can exhibit what humans understand as intelligence.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Large language models will pass the Turing test—a Rubicon for machines’ ability to imitate human intelligence.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • For decades, passing what’s now called the Turing test was considered a nearly impossible challenge and a strong indicator of AGI.
    — Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Weizenbaum intended his computer program to demonstrate the inability of machines to simulate human speech convincingly—that is, to pass the Turing test.
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Psychiatrists given transcripts of therapy sessions often couldn’t tell the difference between Parry and humans; in this narrow sense, the chatbot passed the Turing test.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This, in addition to the central fact that the protocol of the Turing test is based on imitation, gives a structural advantage to simulation and mimicry (and so to the LLM).
    — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • In an age where computers seem to be galloping ever closer to passing the Turing test, the scientists made some very deliberate decisions on MyEleanor’s sophistication.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 1 June 2024
  • The Turing test, also known as the imitation game, was developed in 1950 by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing to assess how machines display intelligent behavior similar to that of a human.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023

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