Ever since computers became the central part of industry and humankind’s evolution, people have constantly circled around the same questions: what is consciousness? Can a machine ever truly think? And is the mind simply a combination of neurons doing their work, or is there something less tangible at the core?
In the late 1930s, English mathematician Alan Turing developed the foundation for what would later become computers, but he also developed a test to see whether these computers could ever pass for human. Intrigued? Click on to see what the Turing test is, and how it has been used.