Electrical impulses fire through the brain at high speeds, lighting up the dark recesses and grooves within to produce what we call intelligent thought. For centuries, humans have grasped onto our notion of intelligence as belonging to us and us alone. However, as we wave goodbye to the 20th century and begin our long trek into the new millenium, our ideas of what is considered to be intelligence are rapidly changing. With the birth of …showed first 75 words of 903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 903 total…nearly every human on the planet. A true test of intelligence would be one where a computer’s ability to judge, reason, and come up its own conclusions are at work, and not its conversational skills. Because of this glaring oversight, Turing’s test proves itself to be an inefficient means of judging a computer’s level of intelligence. The entire test may sound good on paper, but when put into use it fails miserably.