Who proposed a test to determine whether a machine can imitate human intelligence?

• A. Albert Einstein
• B. Alan Turing
• C. Archimedes
• D. Apollo

Answer: (B)

Evaluating whether a machine can imitate human intelligence through natural-language interaction. Alan Turing proposed this idea in his 1950 paper, describing the Imitation Game, now known as the Turing Test. In this setup, a human judge chats with both a machine and a human without seeing them. If the judge cannot reliably tell which is the machine, the machine has demonstrated behavior that is indistinguishable from human intelligence in conversation. The test focuses on observable performance—whether the machine can convincingly imitate human responses—rather than claiming the machine truly thinks or is conscious. Other figures listed aren’t associated with proposing such a test, while Turing’s proposal became a cornerstone concept in thinking about machine intelligence.