# Can machines think? (the imitation game)

- kind: problem
- status: partial
- year: 1950
- authors: Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

**Statement.** Can a machine converse indistinguishably from a human?

Turing proposed conversation as a test to replace an ill-defined question. By the mid-2020s language models were judged human in controlled imitation-game studies at or above chance. Few think this settles what Turing's original question was about, which is why it is marked partial.

Posed 1950, Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Turing test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test)

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