The Turing test is a method that tests a machine’s ability to match human-level intelligence. It is only considered intelligent if it passes the Turing test. However, a machine can be considered as intelligent even without sufficiently knowing how to mimic a human, in specific scenarios.

The Turing Test is a measure of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. It was proposed by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 in his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” In the test, an evaluator interacts with both a human and a machine through a text-based interface without knowing which is which. If the evaluator cannot reliably distinguish which responses are from the human and which are from the machine, the machine is said to have passed the Turing Test, demonstrating a level of artificial intelligence comparable to that of a human.