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Item Open Access The Turing test(MIT Press, 2024) Proudfoot, Diane; Frank MC; Majid A“The Turing test” is the name given to a test of human-level intelligence in machines, invented by Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer. In Turing’s imitation game, a human interrogator has text conversations with both a human being and a computer that is pretending to be human; the interrogator’s goal is to identify the computer. Computers that mislead interrogators often enough, Turing proposes, can think. Numerous researchers—most recently, the designers of large language models (LLMs)— have claimed that their models pass Turing’s test. These claims reflect the importance of testing to computer science and cognitive science: Without a test, we cannot assess progress toward building human-level AI. As to whether Turing’s imitation game is in fact the test that we need, the jury is still out.