The Turing test: AI still hasn't passed the "imitation game"

That was the question Alan Turing posed at the top of his landmark 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The paper was published seven years after the British mathematician had cemented his place in history by decrypting the German Enigma machine during World War II. It was a time when rudimentary electronic computers were just starting to emerge and the concept of artificial intelligence was almost entirely theoretical. So, Turing could only explore his inquiry with a thought experiment: the imitation game. The game, commonly called the Turing test, is simple. One person, player C, plays the role of an interrogator who poses written questions to players A and B who are in a different room.