If they can't distinguish between the two, the computer is said to have passed the Turing test.

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It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.

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Should we develop a reverse Turing Test, determining the point of Artificial Mechanization?

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