Atlas record: https://www.aitimeline.dev/en/events/evt-0001/
Research · October 1950
Turing proposed a test for discussing machine intelligence.
A question about imitation made machine intelligence discussable rather than settled.
The paper proposes an imitation game; it does not claim to build a thinking machine.
Mind · Published October 1950
The Turing Digital Archive, King's College, Cambridge · Published October 1950
The 1947 lecture contains arguments Turing set out three years later in the imitation game paper.
Both examine how a conversation with a machine is perceived by people; Weizenbaum documents the impression it creates.
The argument denies outright that a behavioural test establishes understanding.
The tournament was billed as the first actual administration of the Turing test, restricted in topic and tenor so that programs had a chance.
Both records bear on what counts as evidence of machine thinking.
Both concern a public demonstration of machine language behaviour before a human audience.