Philosophy of Science· 2026Q1
Why No One Has Implemented the Turing Test: Identifying Turing’s Design and Putting it into Practice
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Alan Turing's imitation game, a foundational concept in AI, has never been correctly implemented because influential interpretations of its design are mistaken; this paper definitively establishes Turing's original design and presents the first execution of his experiment.
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Key points
- Influential interpretations of Alan Turing's imitation game design are mistaken.
- The widely held belief that generative AI models pass the Turing Test is incorrect due to these misinterpretations.
- This paper definitively establishes Turing's original conceptual design for the imitation game.
- The authors report on the first-ever execution of Turing's experiment as he originally proposed it.
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Abstract
Abstract In October 1950, Alan Turing proposed that a machine’s success in an imitation game provides a criterion for thinking. Turing’s test became one of the philosophical foundations of AI, but three-quarters of a century later, it is widely claimed that generative AI models pass the test, rendering it obsolete. Our aim here is to establish definitively Turing’s conceptual design for his game. We argue that influential interpretations of Turing’s design are mistaken, with the consequence that his test has not been passed. We also present the results of carrying out, for the first time, Turing’s experiment as he proposed it.
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