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Turing test

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Turing test
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(Philosophy / Logic) a proposed test of a computer's ability to think, requiring that the covert substitution of the computer for one of the participants in a keyboard and screen dialogue should be undetectable by the remaining human participant
[after Alan Turing (1912-54), English mathematician]


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lt;p>CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is the technology that uses distorted, scrambled characters to block automated registration of accounts.
Alan Turing cracked Nazi codes and became known as the father of computer science, developing the Turing machine and Turing test for thinking machines.
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