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ONE OF the best-known tests of progress in AI was proposed by Alan Turing in
1950. A judge would converse with a computer and a person, and if the computer
seemed as human as the person, Turing maintained, it could be said to be
thinking. A page dealing with all things Turing can be found at
http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/~ahodges/Turing.html/.

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