thumb|The "standard interpretation" of the Turing Test, in which player C, the interrogator, is given the task of trying to determine which player—A or B—is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions to make the determination. Image adapted from Saygin, et al. 2000. The Chinese room implements a version of the Turing test. Alan Turing introduced the test in 1950 to help answer the question "can machines think?" In the standard version, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.
thumb|The "standard interpretation" of the Turing Test in which player C the interrogator is given the task of trying to determine which player—A or B—is a computer and which is a human The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions to make the determination Image adapted from Saygin et al 2000 The Chinese room implements a version of the Turing test Alan Turing introduced the test in 1950 to help answer the question "can machines think" In the standard version a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being All participants are separated from one another If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human the machine is said to have passed the test