1950

Turing Test Proposed

Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," flipping the script on philosophy with a single question: can machines think? Rather than defining intelligence, he proposes an imitation game — if a machine can fool a human into thinking it's human, does the distinction even matter? This paper doesn't just launch AI as an idea; it plants the seed for every chatbot, every language model, every debate about machine consciousness that follows.