The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game.' It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman.
— Alan Turing Modern

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From his paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', introducing the Turing Test.

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1950

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