abstract:The Turing Test is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Leonard and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor.
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 theTuringtest: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.