Since its conception by the British computer scientist Alan Turing, the so-called Turing Test has served as an unofficial benchmark for artificial intelligence. The test is conceptually simple.

For decades, the Turing Test—named after its creator, computing legend Alan Turing—was a simple test designed to measure the ability of a program to mimic a human. In the age of large language models ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.