The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a method to assess whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. It involves an “imitation game” where a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a machine and a human, both hidden from view. The machine’s goal is to convince the judge that it is the human, while the human tries to prove their humanity. If the judge cannot consistently tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. This test has sparked debates on the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and the capabilities of machines to simulate human thought processes.