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  **Turing test** — a classic benchmark for artificial intelligence in which a
  machine is judged by whether it can pass as a human. In the channel's
  material, it is cited as an old milestone (from roughly ten years prior) that
  was once used to define AGI, and which has since been surpassed — so it no
  longer settles the AGI question.
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# \*\*Turing test\*\*

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## Definition

**Turing test** — a classic benchmark for artificial intelligence in which a machine is judged by whether it can pass as a human. In the channel's material, it is cited as an old milestone (from roughly ten years prior) that was once used to define AGI, and which has since been surpassed — so it no longer settles the AGI question.

The **Turing test** appears in this channel's material as a historical benchmark for artificial intelligence. In the discussion of Cognition's Devon and the meaning of AGI, Scott Wu points out that ten years ago, AGI meant passing the Turing test, solving hard technical problems, and acting in the real world — and that, to first order, those milestones have been done. His point is not that the Turing test still settles the question, but that old benchmarks like it no longer decide whether AGI has arrived, because AI development happens on many levels and there is no single hard cutoff.