Turing Test Quotes

#1. Love is the Turing test, [ ... ] It is how we check for life.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

Penn Jillette

#3. Any [artificial intelligence] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it." - IAN MCDONALD, River of Gods It

Nick Cole

#4. What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Brian Christian

#5. Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

Ian McDonald

#6. So are you conscious?" The alien robot - the skin the Miller construct was using - shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. "Don't know. Seems like I'm acing my Turing test, though.

James S.A. Corey

#7. We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.

Stephen Baxter

#8. People think computers are different from people because they don't have minds, even though, in the Turing test, computers can have conversations with people about the weather and wine and what Italy is like, and they can even tell jokes.

Mark Haddon

#9. What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#10. There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Evan Parker

#11. A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Jacki Weaver

#12. I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Gemma Arterton

#13. Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.

George Dyson

#14. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#15. Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

Kelly Link

#16. It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

Luc De Clapiers

#17. I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide.

Ken Wilber

#18. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Dave Barry