What is the technique that was developed to determine whether a machine could or could not demonstrate the artificial intelligence called?

The technique that was developed to determine whether a machine could or could not demonstrate artificial intelligence is called the Turing Test. It was proposed by the British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950.

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1. Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist, proposed a method to test a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

2. He proposed this method in a paper published in 1950 titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."

3. The method is now known as the Turing Test.

4. In the Turing Test, a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another.

5. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech.

6. If the evaluator cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. This test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers.

7. The Turing Test is a significant concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.